| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Editor's note
|
|
The push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, stirred emotions on all sides before a vote on a replacement bill was withdrawn on Friday.
One of the most hotly debated topics was a little-known provision in Obamacare called Essential Health Benefits, which guarantees that core benefits, such as emergency care and maternity benefits, are covered. Simon Haeder, a scholar at West Virginia University who has studied these EHBs, explains what they are, why they’re controversial and why eliminating them “would prove to be disastrous.”
And, scholars react to the implosion of Donald Trump’s first foray into legislating. What’s next for the fragmented GOP?
|
Lynne Anderson
Senior Editor, Health & Medicine
|
|
|
Top story
|
Lisa Schwetschenau, who has multiple sclerosis, shown in a photo in Omaha, Nebraska on March 16. She worries that she could lose some of her essential health benefits under the new proposed health care law.
Nati Harnik/AP
Simon Haeder, West Virginia University
Essential health benefits under Obamacare are suddenly the center of controversy in the proposed replacement bill. If certain health benefits are so essential, why are they so loathed? Here's a look.
|
Politics + Society
|
-
Richard Arenberg, Brown University; Christopher Sebastian Parker, University of Washington
Trump cuts bait, Ryan loses his nerve – and the Obamacare repeal goes down without a vote. What's next for Congress and the GOP?
-
Brett C. Burkhardt, Oregon State University
The White House is pushing for more private prisons. But do the industry's promised benefits hold up to scrutiny?
-
Vesko Garcevic, Boston University
Russian interference in the U.S. election is part of a bigger pattern, according to a former ambassador from Montenegro to NATO.
-
Tanya Golash-Boza, University of California, Merced
Three stories show how today's deportations are reminiscent of what immigrants experienced during immigration raids under President Obama.
|
|
Science + Technology
|
-
Henrike Moll, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
A revolution in the tools and techniques developmental psychologists use to investigate kids' knowledge and capabilities is rewriting what we know about how and when children understand their world.
-
Cris Ledón-Rettig, Indiana University, Bloomington
How can the same basic genome produce such different forms in the two sexes of a single species? It turns out one gene can encode for various things, depending on the order its instructions are read.
-
Jungwoo Ryoo, Pennsylvania State University
Even as text-message two-factor authentication is just starting to become common, a newer method, a return to the era of the physical key, is nipping at its heels.
|
|
Economy + Business
|
-
Earl Anthony Wayne, Hamilton College; Daniel S. Hamilton, Johns Hopkins University
The Treaty of Rome, which eventually led to the European Union, is turning 60 at a time when many inside and outside Europe are questioning the union's value. For the U.S., much is at stake.
-
Jerry Davis, University of Michigan
While Facebook's Zuckerberg suggested as much recently, companies run like autocracies cannot fulfill technology's promise of reinvigorating the democratic process.
|
|
Ethics + Religion
|
-
Steven K. Green, Willamette University
Judge Gorsuch was raised Catholic and later became an Episcopalian. An expert on Church-State issues says don't read too much into religion as an indicator of judicial philosophy.
-
Cassandra Burke Robertson, Case Western Reserve University
Ethical dilemmas arise not because someone did not know the ethical rules. Instead, they arise when individuals are unable to identify the relevant ethical principle at the time of crisis.
|
|
Environment + Energy
|
-
Edgar Hertwich, Yale University; Anders Arvesen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Sangwon Suh, University of California, Santa Barbara; Thomas Gibon, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
No energy source is perfect, but solar and wind have a much lower health and environmental footprint than fossil fuels, a study finds. Biopower, though, is a mixed bag.
-
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
Developed and developing countries alike struggle with water quality problems. For World Water Day, a look at the challenges – and some potential solutions – to better treating wastewater.
|
|
Education
|
-
Laura Apol, Michigan State University
Poetry has been a part of teaching and learning for hundreds of years. But how has poetry education changed? And how are young voices using poetry to express themselves today?
|
|
Arts + Culture
|
-
Peter E. Knox, Case Western Reserve University
As the United States bars its gates to newcomers, the 'Aeneid' – a story of war, exile, racial hatred and irrational fears – is particularly resonant.
-
Ben Zeller, Lake Forest College
Twenty years ago, the paranoia that consumed cults like Heaven's Gate existed on the margins of American society. Now it's moved toward the center of the nation's political life.
|
|
Health + Medicine
|
-
Steven Lubet, Northwestern University
A study that suggested Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was more psychological than physical has been debunked. How did the data get doctored?
-
Lauren Carruth, American University School of International Service
Tuberculosis transmitted from animals to humans is a growing concern in poor countries. As we observe World Tuberculosis Day, it's worth asking why.
|
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
