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There's just one catch: hospital care isn't covered.

Health & Safety

Debate Grows Over Employer Health Plans Without Hospital Benefits

11:00am September 26, 2014

by Jay Hancock

A federal calculator that companies use to certify whether their health insurance complies with the Affordable Care Act appears to bless plans without hospital coverage.

Canada: "The food was inedible," Flickr user Paul Jerry wrote via Flickr Mail about the meat-and-cooked-vegetable platter served to his father at a Canadian hospital. Jerry says he had to bring his father food from the outside.

Around The World In 8 Hospital Meals

1:32pm September 25, 2014

by Whitney Blair Wyckoff

From tasty tempura to gross gruel, hospital meals across the globe vary wildly. Highbrow institutions in China and India have long served top-notch food. U.S. hospitals are starting to follow suit.

David Combs, an insurance broker in Kentucky, wound up benefiting from the Affordable Care Act, even though early on he had figured the law would put brokers out of business.

Insurance Brokers Key To Kentucky's Obamacare Success

6:33pm September 23, 2014

by Jenny Gold

Many brokers feared the new federal health law would make them obsolete. But more than 40 percent of people who signed up for insurance via Kentucky's state exchange used a broker.

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Which Catholics Offer Birth Control? Look To The Insurers

11:36am September 21, 2014

by NPR Staff

Catholic universities and hospitals argue they shouldn't have to offer contraceptive coverage, but many Catholic insurance companies have been making it available for years.

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A Single Insurer Holds Obamacare's Fate In 2 States

3:21pm September 19, 2014

by Pauline Bartolone

Where have the insurance marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act struggled the most? The answer lies in commerce, not politics.

Supporters and opponents of Texas's controversial abortion law gathered Friday afternoon outside the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in downtown New Orleans. Emily Horne (left) is a legislative associate with Texas Right to Life, a group that lobbied for the

Opponents Spar In Court Over Texas Clinics That Do Abortions

4:36pm September 16, 2014

by Carrie Feibel

Three federal judges heard arguments Friday over whether a Texas law that would, in effect, shutter 11 health clinics that perform abortions puts an undue burden on women.

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Health & Safety

Health Law Tempers States' Insurance Mandates

3:05pm September 16, 2014

by Michelle Andrews

Parts of the Affordable Care Act seek to curb states from setting their own mandates requiring insurers to cover specific care. But many state legislators are trying to work around the restrictions.

Young poets Monica Mendoza (clockwise from top left), Erica Sheppard McMath, Obasi Davis and Gabriel Cortez have written about how Type 2 diabetes affects their families and communities.

Health & Safety

Poets Give Voice To The Toll Of Type 2 Diabetes

2:50pm September 16, 2014

by Lydia Zuraw

Doctors and poets are collaborating in California to encourage young people to tell stories about Type 2 diabetes in their communities.

When does a diet drug tip the balance for health?

Health & Safety

FDA Approves New Diet Pill That's Made Of Old Medicines

5:33pm September 12, 2014

by Scott Hensley

Contrave will be available in pharmacies this fall. But the companies working on the drug's marketing won't say how much it will cost.

Though Reproductive Services of Harlingen has been shuttered for months, the surgery rooms seem frozen in time.

A Doctor Who Performed Abortions In South Texas Makes His Case

5:33pm September 12, 2014

by Wade Goodwyn

Texas restrictions on abortion providers have led many clinics to close. Poor women in some spots, like the Rio Grande Valley along the Mexican border, have lost their access to abortion services.

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