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Life expectancy of less-educated Americans decreasing
Call it the life expectancy gap. While Americans with higher education degrees are living longer, white men and women without…
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Britain worries magazines in waiting rooms could spread disease
As an anxious patient, I would gladly seek the comfort of a dog-eared old copy of County Life in the…
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Fla. reporter shares thoughts behind new blog on aging
In the latest installment of “Shared Wisdom” on the aging beat, Barbara Peters Smith of the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune discusses…
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Watch funding, implementation and court cases as Health Policy moves forward
The election is over. Obamacare survived. So what’s the story in your state or community? Implementation. Or lack thereof. Joanne…
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Panelists: Watch state activities for stories about seniors’ health services
What lies ahead for Medicare now that election results are in? Two words sum up the short-term outlook: cost cutting.…
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Harvard professors share perspectives on election’s effect on Health Policy
This is a guest post from Gideon Gil, Boston Globe health and science editor, AHCJ board member and chair of…
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Health Policy news looks at exchanges, Medicaid expansion decisions
ProPublica’s Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, also AHCJ’s president, lay out in maps how various Health Policy mandates will play…
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Post-election: What aspects of Health Policy are reporters focused on?
In addition to AHCJ Health Policy topic leader Joanne Kenen’s predictions for Health Policy after the election, we’re reading other…
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Wanted: Other ways to say ‘implementation’
[View the story “Health care journalists need synonyms for ‘implementation’” on Storify] Health care journalists need synonyms for ‘implementation’ With…
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Election 2012: What do we know about the fate of Health Policy?
Joanne Kenen, AHCJ’s Health Policy topic leader, earlier discussed five potential outcomes of the election. Given what we now know…