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Health Policy
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Article looks at reform concepts put into practice
Here’s a recent story that touches on a whole lot of themes in Health Policy – without getting bogged down in…
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Share your thoughts on database design for tracking pharma payments to doctors
Curtis Brainard of Columbia Journalism Review reminds reporters that their input is needed on the design of a federal database…
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Reuters shows how shell companies hide Medicare fraud in plain sight
Reporting for Reuters, Brian Grow and Matthew Bigg used an analysis of public data to investigate the practice of using…
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‘Doc fix’ flies in the face of rewarding quality, not quantity, of treatment
One of the last things that Congress did before finally getting out of town a few days before Christmas was…
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Growth of for-profit hospices ripe for coverage
Given the recent spate – some good, some pretty muddy, and one I think pretty eye-opening – of articles about the…
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Tsouderos looks at federal funding of alternative medicine
In her latest series, Chicago Tribune reporter Trine Tsouderos, whose award-winning reporting has brought her hard-nosed approach to investigating less-proven…
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What do you wish you knew about covering Health Policy?
You’ll notice today that we have launched our Core Topic pages on Health Policy to offer helpful reporting resources. Joanne…
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Americans unprepared to pay for long-term care
In the Chicago Tribune, Deborah Shelton examines how unprepared Americans are to pay for their own long-term care needs as…
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Long-term care insurance premiums jump
As the population ages and costs continue rising, paying for long-term care is a big issue for middle class families.…
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Aging in place becoming more popular, possible
In the latest installment in The Associated Press series on growing old in America, David Crary explores how the health…