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Reporters can explore states’ options for creating exchanges
Give me an f… … for Flexibility, that is. Flexibility is the buzzword these days, as federal health officials coax…
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Follow up on $95 million just awarded to school-based clinics
Periodically, I get an email or press release from a well-intentioned organization telling me why I should be writing about…
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Shifts in health care delivery raise questions
Christopher Weaver at Kaiser Health News has done two stories recently on new care models driven by insurers eager to…
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Two new resources for covering Health Policy
There are two more resources to share with you from two of health journalisms’ ever-helpful friends, the Kaiser Family Foundation…
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Is reform adequately serving people in your area with pre-existing conditions?
This post is about high risk pools, so let’s get some confusing semantics out of the way. The Affordable Care…
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Study offers context for reporting on health insurance exchanges
The first tip sheet I wrote about covering Health Policy was pegged to the one-year mark of the Affordable Care…
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Explain elements of Health Policy through the eyes, stories of doctors
In these posts about covering Health Policy, I usually don’t point to the big national dailies because a lot of…
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News coverage should reflect that Vermont
has long road ahead to single-payer systemYou may have seen a lot of breathless coverage about how Vermont is poised to become the first state to…
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Kenen suggests topics for regional, local Medicaid stories
My last blog post was on coverage of Medicaid, and we’ve just posted a tip sheet about it, pointing out…
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Health Policy battle entering a new phase
As I try to figure out what AHCJ members most need as they cover Health Policy in year two of…