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Ruling to strike down health-care law puts GOP in a quandary
While the decision by the federal judge in Texas was sweeping, it has little immediate practical impact because the ACA remains in place while the legal battle continues, possibly to the Supreme Court.
ACA sign-ups have lagged for 2019. But what does that mean?
The pace of enrollment in Affordable Care Act plans is slower than in past years. That could mean fewer people will have health coverage — or that more people are getting insurance via their work.
The U.S. surgeon general has called on "bystanders" to be equipped with the opioid reversal drug to save lives. But when a nurse answered that call, her application for life insurance was denied. Why?
A neuroscientist explains the power of sleep
Neuroscientist Matthew Walker believes that lack of sleep is the greatest public health challenge we face in the 21st century. He says the lack of sleep is making us sick, making us fat and making us dumb.
MPR News host Kerri Miller spoke with MPR News reporter Mark Zdechlik and Mary Agnes Caret , senior correspondent at Kaiser Health News, about the different enrollment options for people who lost their Medicare Cost plans.