NPR's Kelly McEvers interviews Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, who was one of the people who worked on the Senate health care bill, about the last minute negotiations and the finished product.
NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Pam Morris, CEO and President of CareSource, about the new health care bill from Senate Republicans. CareSource is the largest provider of Medicaid managed care services for Ohio.
The country's changing attitudes are highlighted by the annual dog meat festival in Yulin City. The government issued a ban on dog meat sale, then promptly reversed it.
Sigmund Freud thought dreams were all about wish fulfillment and repressed desire. But scientists now think they're linked to memory processing and consciousness. And they're often quite mundane.
The way we offer assistance to people fleeing conflict no longer works, says Paul Spiegel, a former director of program management at the U.N. refugee agency. He has a few ideas about how to fix it.
The Senate is about to release its plan to overhaul health care. Steve Inskeep talks to Republican Rep. Buddy Carter of Georgia about how the bill might be different from the House version.
Negotiations have been going on in secret, with only a small number of members privy to the ins and outs of the bill, but it is widely expected to track the House version that passed last month.