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US: Could your Fitbit data be used to deny you health insurance?

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theconversation.com (17.02.2017) Wearing a fitness tracking device could earn you cash from your health insurance company. At first, this sounds lucrative for the people who participate, and good for the companies, who want healthier insurance customers. But it’s not quite so simple.

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Aux Etats-Unis, la réforme de la santé divise le camp républicain

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Le Monde (09.03.2017) Trop généreux pour les uns, trop sévère pour les autres. A peine annoncé par le Parti républicain, lundi 6 mars, le plan destiné à remplacer le système de santé mis en place par Barack Obama a suscité une volée de critiques. Celles des démocrates n’ont surpris personne. La charge venue des rangs de la majorité laisse en revanche présager de longs et douloureux débats au sein du Grand Old Party.

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Trump abre en canal el debate sobre la sanidad en Estados Unidos

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El País (12.03.2017) Los republicanos, atrapados por su retórica, se enfrentan ahora a la ira de sus votantes. California, el mercado más grande de Estados Unidos, alerta de una “espiral mortal” si se destruye el sistema de Obama

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Estados Unidos: La reforma sanitaria de Trump dejará sin cobertura a 24 millones de personas en 10 años

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El País (14.03.2017) Un informe oficial revela que la aplicación del plan republicano reduce las prestaciones sanitarias a cambio de un ahorro de 337.000 millones de dólares en una década

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EEUU: Trump, abierto a adaptar el proyecto republicano del sistema de salud

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El Nuevo Herald (12.03.2017) El presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, se mostró abierto a adaptar el proyecto de reforma del sistema de seguros de salud para mejorarlo, indicaron este domingo sus aliados del partido Republicano, que insistieron en que la propuesta aún es modificable.

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America rose to defend healthcare. But Trump’s attack on the poor is not over

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The Guardian (27.03.2017) Obamacare will be the law of the land for the “foreseeable future”, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, admitted in the aftermath of the abject failure of Donald Trump or the Republican party to “repeal or replace” Obama’s flagship Affordable Care Act (ACA) after seven years of bleating about it.

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Etats-Unis: Trumpcare : "14 millions d'Américains perdraient leur couverture santé d'ici un an"

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EuroNews (24.03.2017) Les dépenses de santé aux Etats-Unis sont estimées à 20 % du PIB pour 2017, un record mondial qui se chiffre à 3,5 trillions de dollars. Moins de la moitié de ces dépenses sont financées par le gouvernement américain. (A titre de comparaison, selon l’OCDE, au sein de l’Union européenne, les pays membres prennent en charge environ 72 % des dépenses de santé.)

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US: Why Men Are Scared to Take Paternity Leave

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Bloomberg (10.10.2016) One would think that if given the paid time off to care for their newborns, men would take it. But even at the rarified companies that offer paternity or parental leave, new dads don't often take advantage of the benefit. Why not? Sure, there's the cultural stigma and the (legitimate) fear of losing out on job opportunities. But giving men less time off than women might also have something to do with it.

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