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Your Healthcare: What Happened

WEBHealthcare is the mess we keep failing to fix. But perhaps there’s a way to learn from our mistakes. Your Healthcare: What Happened? — a collaboration of WNYC’s Health Team and The Takeaway

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URL: https://www.wnyc.org/series/health-care-what-happened

How do you get equal health care for all

WEBThe World Health Organization registry holds 11 million data points — key to addressing global health inequality. Yet health officials stress how much information is still missing.

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You and Your Health WNYC New York Public Radio, Podcasts, …

WEBA discussion of health issues and advice with a host of prominent medical practitioners. This web resource has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring

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Survey Finds Gaping Health Disparities in Brooklyn

WEBIf you live in Brownsville, Brooklyn, you have a life expectancy that is 11 years less than someone living in the Financial District.

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A Skeptic's Guide to Health News and Diet Fads

WEBA bogus study about chocolate and weight loss fooled several news outlets. Here, we present a thorough debunking of health news misreporting and bogus, celebrity-endorsed diet fads.

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Why Being Poor Is Bad for Your Health

WEBFor the second part of this week's installment of Strapped: A Look at Poverty in America, Dr. Benard Dreyer, Professor of Pediatrics at New York University School of Medicine, and Dr. Peter

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What Happened in 2010: Health Care

WEBThe Congressional Budget Office releases a report saying that the health care plan will cost $938 billion over a ten year period, but at the same time it will pay for itself and reduce the federal

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History Of Employer-Based Health Insurance In The U.S.

WEBAs more Americans lose their jobs due to the pandemic, they also lose their health insurance tied to their employment. NPR dives into the origins of employer-based health insurance in the U.S.

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The "Moral Crisis" for Doctors in Working America's Corporatized …

WEBA conversation about the "moral crisis" doctors in America are facing as a result of the increasing corporatization of health care.

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Who Broke Health Care

WEBPresident Clinton had a mandate to offer health care to every American. Then he angered Republicans, supporters turned their backs and he learned that history wasn't on his side.

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Healthcare Mergers and Your Medical Bills

WEBElisabeth Rosenthal explains the effects of hospital conglomerates on health care costs and the difficulties in preventing mergers.

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Health Activism And the Legacy Of The Young Lords

WEBOn July 14, 1970, the Young Lords occupied the Lincoln Medical Center in the South Bronx, known locally as "The Butcher Shop," in order to turn it into a hospital for the people.

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Mayor Adams Talks Women's Health The Brian Lehrer Show

WEBThe New York City Mayor, Eric, Adams, discusses the administration's new women's health agenda

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A Poem in Gratitude for Health Care Workers On Being WNYC

WEBA Poem in Gratitude for Health Care Workers. In Leanne O’Sullivan’s poem “ Leaving Early ,” the poet writes to her ill husband, entrusting him into the care of a nurse named Fionnuala. As

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The Many Obstacles of Health Insurance

WEBA new survey from KFF shows where Americans with different insurance plans hit snags when it comes to coverage.

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All Of It with Alison Stewart (As a Guest) All Of It WNYC

WEBAlison Stewart updates us on her recent kidney transplant surgery.

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Bergen County's Sunday Shopping Ban Explained

WEBBergen County is the last county in the U.S. with blue laws that prohibit shopping for certain kinds of goods on Sundays. We asked Bergen County residents for their thoughts on the ban.

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