Health

Health
Trump guts requirement that employer health plans pay for birth control
With a new regulation, the administration will allow any company or nonprofit group to refuse to cover contraception, by claiming a religious or moral exemption to the federal health law.
Intelligence Squared debate: Is the U.S. health care system terminally broken?
Three doctors and a public health expert debate the motion, "The U.S. health care system is terminally broken." Do we need to design tomorrow's health care on a clean slate, or can the current system be jolted back to life?
Lapse in federal funding imperils children's health coverage
Ten states will start to run out of money for the Children's Health Insurance Program by the end of the year, including Minnesota. Most states will be out of CHIP cash by the summer of 2018, if Congress doesn't act.
In his new book "Why Buddhism is True," Robert Wright, a visiting professor of science and religion at Union Theological Seminary, explores the relationship between science and meditation, and why meditating can help us see the world more clearly.