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Health Policy
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AHCJ names 2020 National Cancer Reporting Fellows
Twelve journalists have been chosen for the 2020 class of the National Cancer Reporting Fellowship. The program is supported by…
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AHCJ to track access problems in real time – with your help
AHCJ’s Right to Know Committee is launching a new strategy for tracking and combating the obstacles that health care reporters…
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President-elect Biden announces nominations to health care team
President-elect Joe Biden’s health care leadership team is coming into focus. Biden announced the nomination of California Attorney General Xavier…
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How Biden can address health care reform ― without the Senate
In my last post, I addressed President-elect Joe Biden’s proposals for expanding the Affordable Care Act and the slim likelihood…
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During open enrollment, consumers will need help recognizing plans that comply with the Affordable Care Act
Journalists covering open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act this year will need to separate fact from fiction about the…
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Biden’s health plan likely to travel a rough road in the Senate
President-elect Joe Biden has an ambitious plan to build upon the Affordable Care Act, in effect evolving “Obamacare” into “Bidencare.”…
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Supreme Court case on Affordable Care Act could have far-reaching effects on Medicaid expansion, pre-existing condition protections
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether it should strike down the individual mandate and…
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NIH leader to headline Journalism Summit on Infectious Disease
Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, will be a featured speaker at the Association of Health Care…
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What Missouri, Oklahoma teach us about state efforts to expand Medicaid eligibility
Missouri voters in August approved a ballot measure that would expand Medicaid eligibility to include healthy adults, beginning July 1,…
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Hefty issue of HealthBeat headed for mailboxes
The latest issue of HealthBeat is expected to be delivered to members of the Association of Health Care Journalists any…