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Health Policy
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Online tool can help reporters offer facts, context to Health Policy choices
This guide to Obamacare from California’s KQED, written by Lisa Aliferis, is very user friendly. It is an overview of…
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AHCJ hosting briefing on federal exchanges for regional, local reporters
If you work in one of the states that is not developing its own health insurance exchange, here is your…
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Employers use exchanges to shift employees, retirees away from traditional benefit plans
For years, employers have been seeking to control the rising cost of employee health insurance. Now they have a new…
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D.C. chapter gets tips on covering Obamacare rollout
With the opening of health care exchanges just days away, AHCJ’s Washington, D.C., chapter figured the time was ripe to…
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With exchanges looming, AHCJ updates Health Policy resources
Health Policy core topic leader Joanne Kenen is continually updating the stories, tip sheets, data and other resources to help…
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Despite ACA, remember that millions will remain uninsured
Who will still be uninsured a decade from now? We know millions of people are going to get covered under…
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Three stories illuminate how doctors’ fees are established
Most of the posts I do here have a take-home message tailored to the rollout of the health law: here’s…
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Find best coverage estimates under the Affordable Care Act
Some AHCJ members have noted that when they go online to find out the estimates for coverage under the Affordable…
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Series explains Health Policy through people’s stories
The Tennessean recently ran a six-part series by Tom Wilemon, who was a 2012-13 AHCJ Regional Health Journalism Fellow, showing the faces…
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Seven ideas to cover health exchanges before the rollout
Look at the technology. It’s incredibly complex and it may not work come “go-live” on Oct. 1. Health exchanges have…