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  • It can become expensive for a company to provide health insurance for unhealthy workers. So in efforts to keep employees healthy — and cheap — some are providing some extra incentives.

  • Confusion about health care is nothing new, but now there is a growing industry trying to ease that confusion. Reporter Joel Rose has a profile of one such person.

  • Being pregnant provides for a whole other spectrum in the health care world: is there such a thing as overtreatment, or is being preventive more important? Even as an informed patient — as health reporter Kerry Grens was — the line can be difficult to draw.

  • Thanks to the Internet, many more people can become informed about medical conditions and treatments. So where does that leave the doctor? Dr. Dennis Novack teaches first-year residents in Philadelphia, and we checked in at a class to find out how they're preparing for the informed patient.

  • With all the talk and debate over health care, it can become difficult to think about it simply. So here's a try: think about its beginning, all the way back. Gregory Warner takes us back to 1700s, and to a young, hard-working fellow named Philip Syng Physick.

  • The annual physical examination is often the reason why many of us see a doctor on a regular basis. It's something that we do half as a check-up and half as a comfort ritual. But how did this habit begin? Gregory Warner checks in to find out.

  • Ben Franklin, to put it simply, did it all: he was a founding father, inventor, diplomat, scientist, satirist, author, statesman, and so on. So is it any surprise that he had a stake in the history of health care? Gregory Warner explains.

  • Over the last decade, the emphasis of the decision-making in retirement plans has shifted from employers and 401(k)s to individuals. Could — or should — the same happen for health care?

  • With the health care reform in the U.S., the topic of how much we should pay for health insurance has become a big debate. Tess Vigeland sits down with health economist Mark Pauly to go through the numbers of health care and what it all means.

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    It's become just another annoying fact of life: the long amount of time spent in the doctor's waiting room. But why? Tess Vigeland pulls up a chair to find out.

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