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Is reform adequately serving people in your area with pre-existing conditions?
This post is about high risk pools, so let’s get some confusing semantics out of the way. The Affordable Care…
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HHS unveils ‘National Prevention Strategy’
Today, in a live webinar and a companion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Department of Health…
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Study offers context for reporting on health insurance exchanges
The first tip sheet I wrote about covering Health Policy was pegged to the one-year mark of the Affordable Care…
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House calls on the rise as their economic benefits become clear
In The Miami Herald, Ana Veciana-Suarez looks into why doctor house calls are on the rise, especially among the Medicare…
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Explain elements of Health Policy through the eyes, stories of doctors
In these posts about covering Health Policy, I usually don’t point to the big national dailies because a lot of…
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Audit: UK’s health IT program falls short of expectations
After a damning report from the U.K.’s national audit office indicating that the National Health Service’s massive health IT program…
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News coverage should reflect that Vermont
has long road ahead to single-payer systemYou may have seen a lot of breathless coverage about how Vermont is poised to become the first state to…
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NEJM article: Media partially to blame for slow adoption of cost-effective health care
In a new “Perspectives” piece in the New England Journal of Medicine, Victor R. Fuchs, Ph.D., and Arnold Milstein, M.D.,…
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Kenen suggests topics for regional, local Medicaid stories
My last blog post was on coverage of Medicaid, and we’ve just posted a tip sheet about it, pointing out…
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Covering Health Issues 6.0, coming soon to a mailbox near you*
*Assuming you’re an AHCJ member. If you aren’t a member, then keep in mind that a free copy of each…