As implementation of the Affordable Care Act marches on, a host of new terms will become part of health journalists’ new vocabulary.
Joanne Kenen, AHCJ’s topic leader on Health Policy, is steadily adding terms to the Health Policy glossary and key concepts section of the website to help reporters explain these complicated issues to readers, viewers and listeners.
Two that you’re likely to hear more about are the multi-state plan and the advanceable tax credit. The multi-state plan was devised as a way to add consumer options and competition to the health insurance exchanges [read more] and the advanceable tax credit is what will help lower- and middle-income people buy insurance in the exchanges [read more].
Other terms recently added to the site include:
Be sure to see the data and resource links AHCJ has compiled to help reporters cover this complex topic.
