A construction worker paints walls at the Maryland Proton Treatment Center in Baltimore. Each of the center's five rooms will contain a massive piece of equipment that will rotate around a cancer patient to deliver a special kind of radiation. Jenny Gold/Kaiser Health News hide caption
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Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, unveiled the plans and prices that will be offered by private insurers at a media briefing in Sacramento on Thursday. Rich Pedroncelli/AP hide caption
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Sometimes it's the hospital that gets the exam. iStockphoto.com hide caption
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If you're interested in buying Viagra, Pfizer, the drug's maker, will now sell it to you from its official website. William Vazquez/AP hide caption
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If he messes up, should the hospital profit? iStockphoto.com hide caption
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If buying health insurance were only this easy. iStockphoto.com hide caption
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A Denver man runs in the snow near Washington Park after a winter storm moved through town in late January. Ed Andrieski/AP hide caption
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The Frank H. Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., will open this fall. The school has a specific mission: minting doctors who want to go into primary care practice. Quinnipiac University hide caption
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Taxes this year will be as much of a drag as ever. But not because of the Affordable Care Act. iStockphoto.com hide caption
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Chick-Fil-A employees Jennifer Cummins, right, and Joshua Figaretti work out in the gym during lunch at the company's corporate headquarters office in Hapeville, Ga. Increasingly employers are offering health plan incentives to encourage healthy behaviors from workers. Ric Feld/AP hide caption
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Heparin is an anticoagulant and the prescription version is made from pig, raising concerns for vegans. Rob Kim/Landov hide caption
Match day at Georgetown University School of Medicine on March 15. Eric Stern/for NPR hide caption
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Patients say they feel little personal responsibility for keeping health costs lower. Andrei Tchernov/iStockphoto.com hide caption