Hervé Amoric talks to Fatima Hamroush, who just been appointed as health minister in the interim government in Libya. Her priority is to offer the right treatment and rehabilitation to those injured in the recent conflict, as well as for other urgent cases such as cancers.
A US appeals court ruled Friday that an element of President Barack Obama's healthcare law requiring Americans to buy healthcare insurance or be penalised was unconstitutional. The White House is expected to appeal to the Supreme Court.
We meet the people of Athens struggling to make ends meet in the face of more austerity measures. Also, the British National Health Service is in crisis as critics say proposed government reforms are too much too soon. Finally, sexism in advertising prompts an angry reaction from women in Italy.
A US judge has ruled that a key provision of the Obama administration's landmark healthcare reform law, which requires all Americans to be insured, is unconstitutional.
Republicans in the US have recaptured the House of Representatives and gained ground in the Senate in historic mid-term elections. The Democrats managed to limit the damage by retaining their majority in the Senate. But their diminished numbers on Capitol Hill leave Barack Obama facing a hard slog for the next two years. What lies ahead for his presidency, and is his agenda of change now a dead proposition?
It was set to be Barack Obama's signature legislation... a commitment to provide health insurance to over 30 million Americans. Does the bill, that was finally adopted by Congress really live up to these expectations ? To answer this question, Raphael Kahane spoke to Jeff Korsmo, Executive Director at the Mayo Clinic Policy Research Center.
The Democrats’ euphoria after the passage of Obamacare and how the Germans got their way over Greece. Weighing in this week, Matthew Saltmarsh of the International Herald Tribune, Paul Taylor of Reuters, Judah Grunstein of World Politics Review, and Esther Leneman of French radio Europe 1.
The Democrats’ euphoria after the passage of Obamacare and how the Germans got their way over Greece. Weighing in this week, Matthew Saltmarsh of the International Herald Tribune, Paul Taylor of Reuters, Judah Grunstein of World Politics Review, and Esther Leneman of French radio Europe 1.
The US House of Representatives gave its final approval to a package of changes to the landmark healthcare overhaul on Thursday evening, sending the finishing touches to President Obama to sign into law.
The US Senate on Thursday passed a package of technical changes to President Obama’s healthcare reform bill, sending it back to the House of Representatives, where the legislation is expected to be passed in a final vote.
