Impact University: Health Care

Alabama

Where Health Care Won’t Go >

Ouyang, Helen. (June 2017, Harper's Magazine): A tuberculosis crisis is affecting rural, Black Belt Alabama.

Affordable Care Act

Life in Obamacare’s Dead Zone >

Verzemnieks, Inara. (2016-12-06, The New York Times): Excluded from the Affordable Care Act because of politics, thousands of poor Americans grapple with the toll — physical and psychological — of being uninsured.

Affordable Care Act

Health Care Systems Try to Cut Costs by Aiding the Poor and Troubled >

Tavernise, S. (2015-03-22, The New York Times): More than 11 million Americans have joined the Medicaid rolls since the major provisions of the Affordable Care Act went into effect, and health officials are searching for ways to contain the costs of caring for them. Sabrina Tavernise examines community health experiments across the country looking for solutions to this challenge.

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