Lori Lomas, an insurance agent with Feather Financial in Quincy, Calif., has noticed that her clients in San Francisco have many more health carrier options than her mountain neighbors. Pauline Bartolone for KXJZ hide caption
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Thursday
One demonstrator advocates for paid sick leave at a 2013 rally outside New York's city hall. The city is now one of several in the U.S. to have passed a measure mandating paid sick days. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Obama's Big Bid To Change Sick-Leave Laws May Hinge On Small Business
If you don't get paid for the quality incentive, is it still an incentive? Laughing Stock/Corbis hide caption
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Scientists reprogrammed the common bacterium E. coli so it requires a synthetic amino acid to live. BSIP/UIG via Getty Images hide caption
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A Kaiser mental health worker with the National Union of Healthcare Workers looks through a pile of signs Monday during day one of a week-long demonstration outside of a Kaiser Permanente hospital in San Francisco. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
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Dennie and Kathy Wright sift through a stack of medical bills at their home in Indian Valley, Calif. Pauline Bartolone for NPR hide caption
Alaska: home to Denali National Park and Preserve, grizzly bears and some very pricey health insurance. Universal Images Group/UIG via Getty Images hide caption
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Tuesday
U.S. funding for medical research by source, 1994-2012. (Data were adjusted to 2012 dollars using the Biomedical Research and Development Price Index.) American Medical Association hide caption
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Steven Brill is a journalist who also founded Court TV, American Lawyer magazine, 10 regional legal newspapers and Brill's Content Magazine. He teaches journalism at Yale. Courtesy of Random House hide caption
'America's Bitter Pill' Makes Case For Why Health Care Law 'Won't Work'
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Palliative medicine physician Michael Fratkin gets off a plane after visiting a patient on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. He's recently launched a startup to support this kind of work. April Dembosky/KQED hide caption
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Richard Simmons was the hottest thing in exercise programs back in 1996. The garb may have changed, but fads are still fickle. Evan Hurd/Sygma/Corbis hide caption
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Wednesday
Need a gift for a 20-something kid about to age out of the family's health plan? Juana Rivera (left) discusses insurance options with Fabrizzio Russi, an agent from Sunshine Life and Health Advisors, at the Mall of the Americas in Miami. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
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Where are the health insurance deals? On the exchanges, many small businesses have concluded. Bjorn Rune Lie/Ikon Images/Getty Images hide caption