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Affordable Care Act
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How the ACA may be helping to close the ‘race gap’
Chris Flavelle of Bloomberg View points out an unheralded achievement of the Affordable Care Act: It’s narrowing the race gap…
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ACA expanded smoking cessation programs but are people getting services?
The Affordable Care Act requires all state Medicaid programs – whether they opted into expansion or not – to help…
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Understanding the federal spending deal and how it affects the ACA
We’ve just posted a tip sheet to help you understand four main ways the big year-end tax and spending deal…
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ACA limits Medicare’s use of key value metric for drug prices
Health insurers are trying a wide variety of methods to link drug costs to the value medications deliver to patients.…
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One thing to keep in mind when reporting on growth in health care spending
The latest health care spending trends are out from the Medicare actuaries – and most reporters focused on how spending…
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Those who assist with health plan enrollment now have expanded roles – are they prepared?
One clear lesson that health law advocates have drawn during the first two enrollment seasons under the Affordable Care Act…
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Finding fresh ways to report on Medicaid, changes in health care system
The Washington, D.C., chapter of AHCJ held an event about Medicaid in late October with Matt Salo, who leads the…
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Getting behind the confusion that leads some to lose their subsidized health insurance
We posted recently about California’s assessment of who was dropping out of the exchange, including the finding that most people…
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Health Policy hasn’t negated demand for special event ‘megaclinics’
In an Oct. 13 story, Susan Abram informed readers of the Los Angeles Daily News that a city sports arena…
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Atlanta journalist finds one series leads to another … and another … and another
Cover health care, or any beat, long enough and most journalists will discover that one story leads naturally to another.…