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    The New Health Care

    Is Our Health Care Spending Worth It?

    Putting a price on longevity or well-being is tricky, but not impossible.

  5. The New Health Care

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    Why Politics Should Be Kept Out of Miscarriages

    The possible problems of a new Georgia law, including causing further pain.

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    Tuesday Could Be the Beginning of the End of Philadelphia’s Soda Tax

    A slew of opponents of the tax are running in the city’s election Tuesday and beverage industry has spent more than $600,000 on ads aiming to turn public opinion against it.

    By Andrew Jacobs

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    In Cities Where It Once Reigned, Heroin Is Disappearing

    The rise of the more potent fentanyl in its place has put a generation of older users, who had managed their addiction, at far greater risk of overdose.

    By Abby Goodnough

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    The Potentially Lifesaving Difference in How a Gun Is Stored

    It could save more children's lives than many legislative efforts that get more attention.

    By Aaron E. Carroll

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    Is There a Connection Between Undocumented Immigrants and Crime?

    It’s a widely held perception, but a new analysis finds no evidence to support it.

    By Anna Flagg

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    Australia and the U.S. Are Old Allies. China’s Rise Changes the Equation.

    Economic geography is proving more significant than historical alliances.

    By Neil Irwin

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    Can the Racial Wealth Gap Be Closed Without Speaking of Race?

    Political momentum on the left for such an effort must face the reality of legal obstacles, particularly from the Supreme Court.

    By Emily Badger

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    Many Hospitals Charge Double or Even Triple What Medicare Would Pay

    A study of 25 states provides a rare glimpse of the stark disparities between what private insurers and the federal government paid for inpatient and outpatient care.

    By Reed Abelson

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    Why Markets Aren’t Sweating the U.S.-China Trade War Much: The ‘Trump Put’

    The president has tended to back off whenever markets and the economy have looked soft.

    By Neil Irwin

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    The Economy That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen: Booming Jobs, Low Inflation

    Maybe using data from a few decades in the middle of the 20th century to set policy in the 21st isn’t such a good idea.

    By Neil Irwin

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    Trump Administration Strengthens ‘Conscience Rule’ for Health Care Workers

    A shift in the balance between the rights of patient and provider, with religion in the middle.

    By Margot Sanger-Katz

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