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Tennessee to take the lead in converting its Medicaid to block-grant funding
Tennessee may become the first state in the country to take advantage of the Trump administration’s enthusiasm for block-granting Medicaid –…
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Covering gun violence as a public health problem requires nuance
As journalists, we focus on the increasingly common phenomenon of mass shootings. They are appalling, they are terrifying and we…
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Johns Hopkins’ Sharfstein shares his health care ‘toolbox’
If anybody has come close to having “done it all” in health policy, it’s Joshua Sharfstein, M.D. The vice dean…
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Media access to public records – Our right to know, #AHCJ19
Health Journalism 2019 kicked off in Baltimore with an extremely useful two-hour workshop on public records. The bottom line: There’s…
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Panel will offer state perspectives on ACA’s status
The Trump administration has given states a great deal of flexibility on health care and the Affordable Care Act. What…
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Experts discuss the cost of the Health Policy wars
In the previous post we talked about the two related but distinct health care cost crises – out-of-pocket burdens on…
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Addressing the cost of the Health Policy wars
The ceaseless political warfare over health care, ironically, has become a big obstacle to … fixing health care. Because what…
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The other Democratic health agenda (hint – it’s not Medicare for All)
With all the attention on Medicare for All, it’s easy to forget that congressional Democrats have another important health care…
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As the ‘Medicare-for-all’ debate heats up, some useful terms to keep straight
“Medicare-for-all,” “single-payer” and “universal coverage” are going to be in the news a lot over the next few years –…
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Chronicling the uninsured: A yearlong look that combines policy, narrative
Bloomberg Health reporter John Tozzi has written a terrific “how I did it” essay summing up a yearlong project on…