When the new Affordable Care Act (ACA) came into effect in the US in 2010, many Americans were hopeful that it would help to bring down the cost of health insurance. However, the opposite has happened instead. Rising cost of health insurance meant that healthcare costs also grew for America.
How did this happen and what is being done to reverse the situation?
With the advent of the Internet, major movie and record studios have been demanding extensions to copyright laws in order to preserve outdated business models. But copyright law can do little to protect them and they need to move with the times and embrace the new technologies.
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Professor of Economics & Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals. Founder & co-President of the Millennium Promise Alliance.
Vice President and Director of the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. Former Turkish Minister of State for Economic Affairs. Head of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) from 2005-2009.
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