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Lost Your Job And Need Health Insurance? Here’s What You Can Do.

America’s unusual health care system that links coverage to jobs means that during bad economic times, people who find themselves jobless are also suddenly without protection from medical costs. This is especially worrisome for the millions of people who have already lost jobs because a public health crisis has virtually shut down the U.S. economy.

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Coronavirus Live Updates: As N.Y. Reports a Record Death Toll, Scientists Warn the Virus Might Not Fade in Summer

“To not have any control over anything, to just be waiting and on the edge of your seat, it’s mind blowing at this point.” Janette’s fiancée, Michael, is detained on Rikers Island. He’s serving time because he failed to check in with his officer, violating his parole for drug possession. Now Michael, and hundreds like

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Fed Emergency Rate Cuts Came as Economy Turned ‘Profoundly Uncertain’

Federal Reserve officials saw the coronavirus as a risk that made the economic outlook “profoundly uncertain” when they chose to slash interest rates to near zero in early March. Minutes from the Fed’s March 15 meeting, released on Wednesday, offer a glimpse at the conversations behind the central bank’s early response to the economic effects

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Some doctors moving away from ventilators for virus patients

NEW YORK — As health officials around the world push to get more ventilators to treat coronavirus patients, some doctors are moving away from using the breathing machines when they can. The reason: Some hospitals have reported unusually high death rates for coronavirus patients on ventilators, and some doctors worry that the machines could be

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