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Health plans win some, lose some in challenges to Trump ACA changes
Think the only big lawsuit pending on the Affordable Care Act is the Texas fight over whether the whole law…
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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 –…