Advocacy
AHCJ advocates for transparency and accuracy in health reporting, ensuring access to credible information and equipping journalists to assess the trustworthiness of health news.
Right to Know
The right to know: It’s a concept that underpins all journalism, and nowhere is it more important than in health care and medicine. Patients have a right to know what will keep them healthy and what will make them sick. The public have a right to know how effectively their government protects and serves those who depend on it. For health care journalists that means heavy responsibilities – and sometimes daunting challenges. Through its advocacy arm, the Right to Know Committee, it works to open doors to health and medical knowledge and serves as a resource for members having difficulty accessing information.
Latest Efforts
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How one reporting team used public records to find questionable Medicare Advantage spending
Fred Schulte Medicare billing records are all the rage. Almost every day, it seems, there’s a new article about doctors…
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Documents yield true cost of Illinois’ PR campaign for insurance coverage
When Illinois awarded a $33 million contract to a high-priced PR firm to promote insurance coverage under the Affordable Care…
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Video shares tips for using data to cover Health Policy
Yesterday, Joanne Kenen shared a guide on using data to cover the Affordable Care Act as well as Charles Ornstein’s…
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Tiptoeing into Medicare data
The volume of public data on our health care system keeps growing and growing. AHCJ board member and veteran health…
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