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Health Policy
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Breaking down court rulings on Affordable Care Act subsidies
Even for those of us who cover the Affordable Care Act (ACA) more or less full time, July 22 was…
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What do you really know about the social determinants of health?
It’s hard to think clearly about Health Policy if you ignore the social determinants of health, that is, how each…
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Health costs, journalism and transparency: One site opening door to price data
Here’s a resource for health care costs – and a creative journalistic model of crowdsourcing, data collection, mapping, reporting and…
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Early trends emerge following Medicaid expansion
A couple of stories have begun to trickle out from states about the impact of Medicaid expansion on hospitals. This…
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Documents yield true cost of Illinois’ PR campaign for insurance coverage
When Illinois awarded a $33 million contract to a high-priced PR firm to promote insurance coverage under the Affordable Care…
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Video shares tips for using data to cover Health Policy
Yesterday, Joanne Kenen shared a guide on using data to cover the Affordable Care Act as well as Charles Ornstein’s…
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Using data to report on Health Policy
We posted some data tools from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the Health Policy beat and AHCJ’s New York…
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Bringing local, national perspectives to report on ACA in rural Kentucky
Kentucky, a southern state implementing the ACA, has gotten a fair amount of media attention and we’ve highlighted some of…
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How one reporter strikes balance between policy, politics
Given the recent discussion on the AHCJ discussion list and elsewhere about the right balance between covering the politics of the…
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Panelists discuss future of rural primary care at Rural Health Journalism 2014
Rural areas have a disproportionate need for primary care physicians but, according to a panel of physicians at Rural Health Journalism…