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To keep health insurance solvent, the pool of covered people needs to include the well and the sick.

GOP Health Insurance Alternatives May Wind Up Using Penalties Like The Mandate

Republicans dislike the health law's requirement to have insurance or pay a fine. But if they want to keep the ban on preexisting conditions, they need to find a way to make customers purchase a plan.

A Syrian woman and her child sit in their refugee living space in Lebanon. They are featured in Four Walls, <a href="https://www.rescue.org/four-walls#four-walls-vr">a virtual reality presentation</a> by the International Rescue Committee.

Can Virtual Reality Make You More Empathetic?

Charities are using virtual reality to immerse people in the plight of refugees and others who need help. Researchers are studying whether it's more effective than other media. And there are skeptics.

Felyssa Ricco stands outside the house in Hazleton, Pa., where she lives with her mother and stepfather, Kelly and Jesse Portanova. In addition to flying Old Glory and other flags, such as "Don't Tread on Me," the Portanovas sometimes fly the Confederate flag, saying it's a way of standing up to those who believe it shouldn't be displayed or who want to disregard America's history.

Michele Norris On The Anxiety Of White America And Her Optimism For The Future

Former NPR host Michele Norris talks about her story for National Geographic magazine's issue on race. In it, Norris explores the unease of some residents of a rapidly changing Pennsylvania town.

Cass Sunstein On Conspiracy Theories

The Harvard law professor takes a deeper look at why "rational people end up believing crazy things."

Peter Lee, the executive director California's health insurance marketplace, says he's pleased by the number of young people already signing up.

Mix Of Young And Old Signing Up For Health Care In California

For the system to work, however, age won't be as important as how healthy or unhealthy all the new enrollees are. And insurers won't really know that until next year, when claims start rolling in. Sick people are more motivated to sign up early, researchers say.

The new exemptions will mostly apply to penalty payments tied to 2018 taxes and to the previous two years.

4 New Exemptions To The Tax Penalty For Lacking Health Insurance

Rule changes from the Trump administration offer exemptions for people in areas with only one marketplace plan, as well as for some who oppose abortion and can't find a health plan that excludes it.

Workers at a Minnesota health care exchange prepare for opening day on Tuesday.

Insurance Exchanges Will Open To Scrutiny, Curiosity, Confusion

On Tuesday, a key part of the Affordable Care Act is going live: People will be able to buy health insurance from new marketplaces in every state. Researchers and wonks will be intensely interested. Most of the rest of us will be clueless.

Winter's Onset Endangers Pakistan Quake Survivors

The Oct. 8 earthquake in Pakistan has left more than 3 million people at risk of disease and exposure as the winter intensifies. The earthquake killed more than 73,000 people, but aid officials warn this number will rise unless survivors get adequate shelter.

Community Minister Brooks Applegate stands at the pulpit of the Fort Myers Congregational United Church of Christ. On the average Sunday, the pews will be filled with around 70 people, with as many as 100 more joining via Zoom.

LGBTQ+ friendly churches of Fort Myers heal the wounds of persecution

There always has been a complicated relationship between religion and queerness. Churches like St. John the Apostle are making a concerted effort to bring LGBTQ+ people back into the fold.

What The Man Who Ran Obamacare Thinks About The Republican Health Care Plan

Andy Slavitt was acting administrator of the the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services until January. He calls the new Senate health care bill "the ugly step-sibling" of the House bill.

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