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Government
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‘Escape Fire’ movie tells powerful patient stories
I wrote earlier this fall about several new documentaries about health care. I’ve now had a chance to watch one…
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Military’s spotty recordkeeping hurts veterans
At the Center for Investigative Reporting, Aaron Glantz dug deep into the widespread recordkeeping errors and lapses that are bedeviling…
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Kenen offers tips for explaining insurance exchanges, related challenges to readers, listeners
We heard a fair amount last week about what states plan to do with their exchanges – and we’ll know…
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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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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…
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A quick Obamacare election recap – or ‘precap’
So the election is finally here. What do we know about the fate of “Obamacare?” As I write this on…
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Investigation: Medtronic paid millions to surgeons; ghostwrote papers
Over at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today, John Fauber updates Side Effects, his long-running investigation into conflicts of…
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AHCJ member speaks to attorneys about information in public health crises
This is a guest post from AHCJ member Rose Hoban, R.N., M.P.H. Related Guidance on the release of information concerning…