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Tips for finding local stories about Health Policy
Last week, Stacey Singer, of The Palm Beach Post, and I led a workshop on “Ten Local Health Stories” (actually we…
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Coming soon: Three new films about health care
We know of at least three new movies coming out on health care – overtreatment, undertreatment, cost, quality, the uninsured,…
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Effects of ACA’s insurance rate reviews vary based on state
So all those headlines about how the Affordable Care Act’s insurance rate reviews are keeping premium hikes more reasonable and…
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Patients paying for confusion over prevention vs. treatment under ACA
Under the Affordable Care Act, certain high-value preventive services – such as colonoscopies – are supposed to be free. No co-pay…
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Business groups may change tune on Medicaid expansion
We’ve all been reporting on how health care providers – particularly safety nets and public hospitals – are going to…
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Explore aspects of Medicaid expansion in the states
It’s unlikely that too many states (particularly but not exclusively “red” states) will be making up their mind about Medicaid…
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Potential stories about changes in health care delivery are abundant
Many of you probably saw the recent Sunday New York Times Magazine story about home- and community-based health care, called…
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Explaining the Medicare fight in a nutshell
Just about every major news outlet has done a “fact check” on the Medicare wars that erupted after Mitt Romney…
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Quick links to cover Ryan’s view of health care spending
Judith Graham, AHCJ’s topic leader on aging, wrote a good post about Paul Ryan’s health policies’ impact on the elderly…
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Berwick reminds next class of doctors of their responsibility
Several weeks ago I got an email from a Democrat on the Hill that said, “This might make you cry,…