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Health Policy
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Panel on ACA implementation yields cautions and story ideas
The Affordable Care Act is reaching its climactic phase. In just over three months, starting Oct. 1, the health insurance…
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99 things on the health care reform to-do list, the otter edition
For some Friday fun … Sarah Kliff did a blog post for The Washington Post’s Wonkblog on “99 things” that…
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HHS steps up its health insurance enrollment messaging
AHCJ members know that enrollment in the health exchanges (now known as “marketplaces“) starts Oct. 1 (and runs through March…
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GAO reports give journalists a starting place for local assessments
Ready or not, here they come – maybe. The Government Accountability Office has released two lengthy reports (and handy one-page summaries)…
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Brill reminds New York AHCJ members to follow the money
AHCJ New York members gained a unique look this week into how journalist, author, and businessman Steven Brill researched and…
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Give context, not equal time, to anecdotes in coverage of Health Policy
Drew Altman, president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, in a recent Politico op-ed, shared some thoughts on challenges in covering…
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ACA requires dental coverage for kids; find out if it will be accessible
The new health insurance exchanges mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are required to offer pediatric dental…
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Reporting on the future of state high-risk pools
As we noted yesterday, the special high-risk pools created by the federal health law to cover some people with pre-existing…
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Revisit how high-risk insurance pools are working in your state
It’s a good time to take a look at the high-risk pools. There are two basic kinds of high-risk pools…
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Vermont co-op plan suffers surprising setback
We’ve written several times about the role of co-ops in the states (here and here) and posted a lot of…