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Reporter crafts story about connections between poverty, illness
It didn’t sit right with Olga Khazan, an associate editor at The Atlantic, seeing so many people focus on individual…
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What to watch for when insurers announce premium rate requests this month
Insurers are preparing to announce their premium rates for 2015. To learn how insurers set rates, Families USA and Consumers…
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Ore. reporter uses data to expose the risks of home births
While beauticians and tattoo artists are regulated in the state of Oregon, midwife certification is voluntary and, even then, the…
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Here’s why specialty pharmaceuticals need value-based insurance design
This spring, Gilead Sciences Inc. introduced Solvaldi, a drug that could cure the liver virus that causes hepatitis C. The…
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Tips from Texas for covering Medicaid fraud, overtreatment
For the past two years, as a health writer for the Texas Tribune, Becca Aaronson has been covering the state’s…
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Bi-monthly newsletter focuses on health equity news, resources
Health Equity Resources is an impressively thorough roundup of the latest news, research, and events related to health disparities and…
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Costs keep going up for small businesses insuring their employees
Ideastream’s Sarah Jane Tribble took a look at how small businesses that voluntarily cover their workers could be in for…
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Similar Health Policy terms, but very different concepts
We’ve had a few members wonder whether “essential coverage” and “essential benefits” are one and the same. They aren’t –…
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Explaining health care costs, spending in the first quarter
So health spending is going up. Big time. But health costs are still growing at historically slow rates. And the…
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Best place to age is Minnesota (again)
For the second straight year, Minnesota ranks as the best place for seniors, according to a new report, from the…
