Health Care

Waylaid by disease

Health is the determinant in whether or not people worldwide can succeed.

Sick, and in health

As privileged Columbia students, our notion of healthy is a little skewed.

Students need health care, too

Repealing Obama's bill would burden college students.

Admins update USenate on Northwest progress, ROTC

Karen Singleton said five reports of sexual assault—an unprecedented number—were filed with the disciplinary hearing committee last semester.

It makes me want to shout

The numerous reforms of the Affordable Care Act promise opportunities that will be convenient for some, and heaven-sent for others.

Student loan program revamped

On Tuesday—the same day President Barack Obama signed the final health care legislation into law—Columbia announced that it will transition to the Federal Direct Loan Program for the 2010-2011 school year.

An unsettling silence

Given how consequential the bill signed Tuesday by President Obama may be, it’s striking to me how muted the campus response is.

The good, the bad, and the Student Loan Bill

Though conservatives have uniformly opposed the legislation as wasteful, ineffective, and overreaching, the student financing part presents a complicated situation for the conservative mind.

Students debate implications of health care legislation

Students from opposite ends of the political spectrum said they were happy about provisions in the health care legislation that supported the needs of college students.

Politicians, professors take pulse of health care legislation

The passage of health care legislation is only the beginning of an uncertain course for the Democratic Party, local experts say.