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Health Policy
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Getting behind the confusion that leads some to lose their subsidized health insurance
We posted recently about California’s assessment of who was dropping out of the exchange, including the finding that most people…
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Health Policy hasn’t negated demand for special event ‘megaclinics’
In an Oct. 13 story, Susan Abram informed readers of the Los Angeles Daily News that a city sports arena…
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Atlanta journalist finds one series leads to another … and another … and another
Cover health care, or any beat, long enough and most journalists will discover that one story leads naturally to another.…
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Data raises questions: Is health exchange churn an affordability challenge, or the result of a new job?
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported this fall that the number of people covered – that is,…
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Digging deeper into the Census’ new health insurance stats
Two fellow AHCJ core topic leaders, Susan Heavey and Joseph Burns, have looked at aspects of the recent census report…
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D.C. chapter learns how ACA affects craft brewery, other small businesses
About 25 Washington, D.C., area journalists met on Sept. 30 to learn about how the Affordable Care Act was affecting…
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Boehner’s departure won’t end attacks on the ACA
There’s a lot of speculation about what outgoing House Speaker John Boehner may or may not accomplish in his last…
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Congress votes to give states more say in defining small group insurance market
In 2016, the definition of “small business” or “small group” market was supposed to change under the Affordable Care Act.…
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Two government reports on the uninsured show trend toward historic lows
For the past two months, new data on the rate of the uninsured in the United States have reached what…
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Health care reform may be helping close the pay gap for primary care providers
We don’t usually post two consecutive items by the same health care reporter on different topics. But when I was…