Shots - Health Blog
4:26 pm
Fri July 6, 2012

More Answers To Your Questions About The Health Care Law

Credit Adam Cole / NPR
The Affordable Care Act remains pretty much intact after its review by the Supreme Court. So what's in it anyway?

Originally published on Tue July 10, 2012 4:46 pm

Now that the Supreme Court has upheld almost all of the Affordable Care Act, many Americans are scrambling to remember — or learn for the first time – what's in the law and how it works.

We asked for questions from our audiences online and on air. Here's are some, edited for clarity and length, and the answers:

Q: Will the penalty for not having health insurance affect people at all income levels, or will low-income people be spared?

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The Salt
3:52 pm
Fri July 6, 2012

Your Love Letters To Pie Came In Droves

Credit Courtesy of Rob Siegel
NPR listener Rob Siegel of Philomath, Ore., says every Thanksgiving he spends a whole day making pies with his grandchildren.

Originally published on Wed July 11, 2012 3:08 pm

All good things come to an end, and we're sad to report that today marks the conclusion of Pie Week. What started as an admission of our fears of making pie crust (see Allison Aubrey's story) has become something much bigger that speaks to just how powerful pie can be as a means of bringing us together.

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It's All Politics
3:51 pm
Fri July 6, 2012

Jobs Report And Politics: The Monthly Spin Cycle

Originally published on Fri July 6, 2012 4:32 pm

Like any Oval Office incumbent seeking re-election, President Obama would prefer to have the economy exceeding expectations in terms of job creation at this point in the campaign.

But exactly four months from Election Day, the economy isn't cooperating. In fact, it's doing just the opposite, underperforming job-growth forecasts in recent months.

Given the trend, it seems unlikely the four monthly jobs reports to be issued between Friday and Election Day will change the pattern in which our politics now seem trapped:

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The Two-Way
3:11 pm
Fri July 6, 2012

Zimmerman Posts Bond, Is Released

Credit Joe Burbank / AP
George Zimmerman during a court hearing on June 29.

One day after a Florida judge set his new bail at $1 million, accused killer George Zimmerman is out of jail after posting a bond.

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The Two-Way
3:07 pm
Fri July 6, 2012

Yahoo, Facebook Reportedly In Ad Deal

Originally published on Fri July 6, 2012 3:52 pm

Yahoo and Facebook have agreed to re-sheath their patent swords and play nice — at least for now.

The two companies have struck a broad advertising partnership as part of a deal to end a patent dispute, Kara Swisher reports on the technology blog All Things Digital, quoting "sources close to the situation."

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Law
2:59 pm
Fri July 6, 2012

How The Health Care Ruling Might Affect Civil Rights

Credit David Goldman / AP
People gather outside the Supreme Court on June 28, the morning the health care ruling was announced. Lawyers say they're still teasing out the consequences for other key areas of the law — including civil rights.

Originally published on Tue July 10, 2012 4:46 pm

There's been lots of talk about how the Supreme Court's landmark decision to uphold the health care law could affect the federal Medicaid program and President Obama's political standing. But days after the historic ruling, lawyers say they're still teasing out the consequences for other key areas of the law — including civil rights.

At first blush, it might seem odd that a case about the Affordable Care Act would send civil rights experts scrambling back to their law books.

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The Two-Way
1:46 pm
Fri July 6, 2012

Hot Damn! It's National Fried Chicken Day

Credit Steve Parsons / PA Photos /Landov
Celebrating the day.

Originally published on Fri July 6, 2012 2:23 pm

Someone please tell us, because we've searched and can't find the answer: Who decided this is National Fried Chicken Day?

It apparently is, judging from all the stories, Web posts and tweets we're seeing.

It's why the Los Angeles Times is offering up "Fried Chicken Five Ways" — five recipes, from classic buttermilk-battered to Korean.

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Middle East
1:27 pm
Fri July 6, 2012

Yemen Airstrikes Punish Militants ... And Civilians

Originally published on Tue July 10, 2012 4:46 pm

The destruction is total. In Jaar, a town in southern Yemen, an entire block has been reduced to rubble by what residents say was a powerful airstrike on May 15.

For the first time in more than a year, the sites of the escalating U.S. air war in southern Yemen are becoming accessible, as militants linked to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula have withdrawn from the area. This retreat follows the sustained American air campaign and an offensive by the Yemeni government forces on the ground.

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Shots - Health Blog
12:13 pm
Fri July 6, 2012

Under Pressure, Pfizer Agrees To Change Vitamin Claims

Credit CSPI
Pfizer will drop or qualify some health claims on labels and in ads for Centrum vitamins and supplements.

Originally published on Fri July 6, 2012 12:56 pm

If you pay any attention at all to ads for vitamins, you'd be forgiven for thinking they're good for just about anything that could ever ail you.

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The Two-Way
11:55 am
Fri July 6, 2012

How Hot Is It? All You Need To See Are These Two Maps

Originally published on Fri July 6, 2012 2:11 pm

The heat wave across much of the nation continues.

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