SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Congressional Republicans are trying to figure out when to repeal and how to replace the Affordable Care Act. Whatever happens, there's a lot at stake for older Americans. NPR's Ina Jaffe covers aging. She joins us for our regular

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Doctors, Nurses Continue to Provide Care at Damaged Sirte Hospital The destruction of Moammar Gadhafi's hometown, Sirte, during Libya's revolution included significant damage to the city's main hospital, where a small crew of intrepid doctors and nur

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Surgeons Volunteer to Improve Liberian Health Care Although fighting ended in Liberia in 2003, the country remains on a long road to recovery from civil war. Poverty, a lack of development and little health care are among the challenges facing the go

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Cameroon Heart Patients: A Bumpy Road to Care YAOUNDE, CAMEROON The best heart care in central Africa is probably found in a sophisticated cardiac care center outside of Kumbo Town, 450 kilometers northwest of Cameroons capital, Yaounde. But the loca

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By Deborah Block Washington 16 July 2007 Detainees awaiting processing by immigration officials A recent U.S. government report says detainees at American immigration detention centers are not receiving adequate medical care. Three human rights group

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Survival of Portuguese Health Care Questioned Portuguese citizens have their vices like anyone else. But if their health deteriorates, they know, like most Europeans, there is a high quality yet mainly free health care system to look after them. But

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US Supreme Court to Make Historic Health-Care Decision Three families explain what's at stake for them. Just like he did four years ago, Miles Fawcett is there to catch his daughter when she needs him. Serena was born with a severe liver defect. Her

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Lack Of US Support For Mental Health Care Criticized Eric Parks and his mother Ginger Smith have shared a long battle with mental illness. Parks has bi-polar disorder. His first psychotic episode happened when he was 19. I dont remember much of it. I

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Thai Clinic Is One of the Few Health Care Options for Burmese Refugees Along Thailands border with Burma, tens of thousands of refuges have few health-care options. At one key clinic, health care workers offer advice for expectant mothers, dental eme

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The U.S. foster care system is overwhelmed in part because America's opioid crisis is overwhelming. Thousands of children have had to be taken out of the care of parents or a parent who is an addict. One of the states with the bigg

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Republicans in Congress have already taken the initial steps to start repealing the Affordable Care Act. Democrats are hoping to at the very least slow that process down by rallying public support for the health care law. Those r

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Well, just before 1:30 this morning, Senate Republicans completed the first step toward repealing the Affordable Care Act. The Senate passed a budget resolution which sets the repeal process in motion. It happened after seven hou

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: We do not know yet if Obamacare will be replaced. As NPR's Pam Fessler reports, one community facing uncertainty are the homeless. PAM FESSLER, BYLINE: Joseph Funn was homeless for almost 20 years, and his body took quite a beatin

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: After weeks of talking about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, the Trump administration made a move today. The Department of Health and Human Services proposed tightening rules on how and when people c

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Voters and activists have been lashing out at members of Congress over health care for months now. Add the anger, particularly on the left, over the president's firing of FBI Director James Comey, and you get this scene that unfo

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Rates Up 22 Percent For Obamacare Plans, But Subsidies Rise, Too play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0003:57repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: We have brought you more than a few stories about the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. But Modicare, nicknamed for India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, is actually the biggest government health plan in the world. Modi wants to

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By Dan Robinson 08 November 2009 President Barack Obama stands with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, 07 Nov 2009 The House of Representatives has approved a more than $1 trillion plan by majority Dem

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Today, President Barack Obama signed into law his medical reform bill. Some people are very excited about this new development, and other people are not. The question of whether the U.S. needs universal health care has been debated for months. The go

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 05 November 2009 US Capitol, Washington DC The stage is set for a historic debate in the U.S. Congress on legislation crafted by majority Democrats to reform the U.S. health care system. The debate expected in a special

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