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Thursday, October 3 2013

  • Can We Make Guns Safer? | Understanding the Debt Limit Showdown | Is Body Image A Public Health Issue? October 3, 2013

    The Shutdown Showdown: A Public Image War | Understanding the Debt Limit Showdown | One Man's Experience With Obamacare Exchanges | Med Students Earn Credit For Editing Wikipedia | Ca... (episode)

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    • The Shutdown Showdown: A Public Image War October 3, 2013

      While the shutdown has had a very real impact, particularly on the 800,000 fuloughed government workers, with the near-constant speeches by President Barack Obama and Republican leade...

    • Understanding the Debt Limit Showdown October 3, 2013

      Just around the corner an even bigger national fiscal catastrophe is looming. In September the U.S. Treasury warned Congress that if the nation's debt limit is not raised by October 1...

    • One Man's Experience With Obamacare Exchanges October 3, 2013

      The online healthcare marketplaces are up and running and Americans have rushed to see what they have to offer. Hugh Meade, a carpenter and independent sign contractor living in Okla...

    • States That Rejected Medicaid Expansion Leave Millions Without Healthcare October 3, 2013

      Can we really call the Affordable Care Act universal healthcare? According to new data analyzed by our partner The New York Times, of the 26 states rejecting Medicaid expansion, rough...

    • Med Students Earn Credit For Editing Wikipedia October 3, 2013

      Wikipedia is a site that generally doesn't sit well in the world of academia. But in a new effort pursued at the University of California at San Francisco, medical students will be ab...

    • Can We Make Guns Safer? October 3, 2013

      Could we prevent accidental shootings if we had the technology to somehow make guns ”child-proof?" Michael Recce, an associate professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, dev...

    • Is Body Image A Public Health Issue? October 3, 2013

      Should body image be viewed as a public health issue? And if yes, is city hall the best forum to discuss these issues? The Takeaway is joined by Samantha Levine, an aide to New York C...