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Data shows drug prices spiked seven percent last year

by Dan Gorenstein
Oct 18, 2016
While consumer spending grew 1.5 percent last year, drug prices rose dramatically.
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Prostate cancer treatments in question

by Dan Gorenstein
Sep 26, 2016
To treat or not to treat; that is the question.
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California seeks more health care access for undocumented

by Dan Gorenstein
Sep 19, 2016
The state seeks permission to let undocumented immigrants access Obamacare exchanges.
More than half a million people could get health insurance under a new California proposal.
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To fix health care, try a walk around the neighborhood

by Kai Ryssdal
Sep 15, 2016
Dr. Prabhjot Singh on his book "Dying and Living in the Neighborhood."
Dr. Prabhjot Singh speaks to the Gerson Lehrman Group on March 1, 2016, in New York City.   
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For chimps no longer needed for research, smoothies and sanctuary

by Marketplace Contributor
Sep 15, 2016
When the National Institutes of Health quit funding biomedical testing on chimpanzees last year, that put most research chimps out of work.
Sarah Baeckler Davis at a sanctuary in North Georgia for chimps retiring from private research labs.
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Clinton drug plan: is it enough?

by Dan Gorenstein
Sep 2, 2016
What would it take to control drug prices?
Rather than tackling the soaring prices of drugs overall, Clinton economic policy advisor Mike Shapiro said their plan is to address the insidious problem where a subset of drug makers crank up prices on generics, just because they can.
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Alabama ends up with a single health-exchange insurer

by Gigi Douban
Aug 23, 2016
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama will be the state's only health-exchange insurer as of next year.
A rate hike from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama could affect about 160,000 people.
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In Japan, seniors are half of all welfare recipients

by Adam Allington
Aug 22, 2016
A growing number of seniors, and not enough workers, has put stress on pensions.
Elderly women choose vegetables from a vendor at a temple in Tokyo.
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Why Aetna is ditching some health insurance exchanges

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Aug 16, 2016
Aetna is losing money, so it's pulling out of health insurance exchanges.
Aetna has had a pretax loss of more than $430 million since January 2014.
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Obama administration scrounges for Zika funding

by Dan Gorenstein
Aug 12, 2016
But how long will it last?
Larry Smart, a Miami-Dade County mosquito control inspector, uses a fogger to spray pesticide to kill mosquitos in the Wynwood neighborhood as the county fights to control the Zika virus outbreak on August 1.
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