Category: NPR

NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with an architect of the Affordable Care Act, Dr. Zeke Emanuel, about the Supreme Court upholding Obamacare once again.

The decision threw out the challenge to the law, on grounds that Texas and other objecting GOP-dominated states were not required to pay anything under the mandate provision. The vote was 7 to 2.

Despite being hit hard early in the pandemic, New York City lags behind in vaccinating people 65 and older, and its efforts to reach the homebound and disabled have been disorganized.

Employees at Houston Methodist who are unwilling to get the shot say the vaccines are unsafe and even “experimental.” The hospital system’s CEO says they’re spouting “anti-vaccination rhetoric.”

Montana now has six mobile crisis response teams — up from one in 2019 — with more in the works. Each team has a different makeup, but all use mental health support to diffuse tricky situations.

Women aren’t just upping their drinking, researchers say. Increasingly they are “drinking to cope,” instead of for pleasure — which accelerates the risk of alcohol use disorder and its health damage.

A new movie produced by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine group tries to capitalize on the COVID-19 pandemic, the racial justice movement, and renewed interest in the history of medical racism.

Montana is one of only four states without a medical school, and two groups with different financial models hope to remedy that. One plans a for-profit school, but critics say students may suffer.

As of late May, 50.6% of Canada’s population had received at least one vaccination shot — but only 4.6% of the population was fully vaccinated.

As of late May, 50.6% of Canada’s population had received at least one vaccination shot — but only 4.6% of the population was fully vaccinated.