Health Care

The GOP Tries to Redefine Rape Exemptions—Again

A House bill banning abortions after 20 weeks includes provisions requiring women to report rape to police to qualify for exemptions.

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| Tue Jun. 18, 2013 2:59 PM PDT
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MAP: These States Rejected Federal Money to Fix Their Terrible Mental Health Systems

Some 1.2 million mentally ill Americans will be left without Medicaid coverage as a result.

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| Mon Jun. 10, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
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Lawsuit Against Mississippi Prison Is the Stuff of Nightmares

Troubling allegations of life at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility.

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| Thu Jun. 6, 2013 5:19 PM PDT

Obamacare Is Forcing Cuts to High-End Health Plans, and Not Just For the Rich

One provision of the law taxes employer-based health plans that are overly generous, causing those employers to increase costs and cut benefits for workers.

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| Tue May. 28, 2013 7:59 AM PDT

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Obamacare Doesn't Make Employers Cover Spouses. Does That Matter?

Some employers may end up dropping coverage for husbands and wives of employees.

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| Mon May. 20, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

Psychiatry's New Diagnostic Manual: "Don't Buy It. Don't Use It. Don't Teach It."

That's what psychiatrist Allen Frances, chair of the DSM-IV task force, has to say about DSM-5.

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| Tue May. 14, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
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Val Kilmer Was in DC This Week Lobbying for What?!

Mr. Kilmer goes to Washington to argue for a religious exemption to Obamacare.

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| Fri May. 10, 2013 8:28 AM PDT
Reeves County Detention Complex smolders following prisoner riots.

America's 10 Worst Prisons: Reeves County

An overcrowded, understaffed lockup—with health care bad enough to spark riots.

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| Fri May. 10, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

Watch: Ghosts of the Asylums

Jeremy Harris takes photographs and artifacts from deep inside abandoned mental hospitals.

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| Mon Apr. 29, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

TIMELINE: Deinstitutionalization And Its Consequences

How deinstitutionalization moved thousands of mentally ill people out of hospitals—and into jails and prisons.

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| Mon Apr. 29, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

MAP: Which States Have Cut Treatment For the Mentally Ill the Most?

Bruatal cuts to mental-health spending doom many mentally ill people to the streets, jail, or worse.

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| Mon Apr. 29, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
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Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin.

It's insanity to kill your father with a kitchen knife. It's also insanity to close hospitals, fire therapists, and leave families to face mental illness on their own.

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| Mon Apr. 29, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
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How Bombs in Iraq Saved Lives in Boston

10 years of IEDs and shrapnel wounds taught surgeons critical lessons about trauma—and tourniquets.

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| Thu Apr. 18, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

Judge Rules That Emergency Contraception Should Be Available to Everyone

The decision comes after 10 years of legal wrangling over access to Plan B.

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| Fri Apr. 5, 2013 8:42 AM PDT

Alabama Bill Could Shut Down All Abortion Clinics in State

Like Mississippi before it, the state is attempting to regulate its abortion clinics out of existence.

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| Wed Apr. 3, 2013 12:23 PM PDT

Mississippi Nominates Anti-Abortion Lobbyist to Board of Health

Who needs a doctor when you can have a lobbyist?

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| Thu Mar. 28, 2013 10:03 AM PDT

The Great Healthcare Stalemate

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| Thu Mar. 28, 2013 7:36 AM PDT
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Doctors Caught in Crossfire of Nutty Obama Conspiracy Theory

From South Carolina to Montana, legislators are pushing controversial "docs vs. Glocks" laws.

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| Wed Mar. 20, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

Charts: This Is What Happens When You Defund Planned Parenthood

Dozens of clinics have shut down in Texas, leaving nearly 200,000 women in search of affordable health care.

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| Thu Mar. 14, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

Paul Ryan's "New" Plan: Squeeze the Poor, Boost the Rich

When will the media wise up and call Ryan's same old plan what it really is?

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| Tue Mar. 12, 2013 7:32 AM PDT