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Health Policy
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Shared wisdom: Finding sources while avoiding politics
It’s advice we see repeated over and over: Get the faces and stories of real people into your articles about…
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Health Policy D-Day? Or not for a few more months?
At the AHCJ event we had in Washington, D.C., a few weeks ago, I talked about why there’s nothing magical…
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AHCJ hosting briefing on federal exchanges for regional, local reporters
If you work in one of the states that is not developing its own health insurance exchange, here is your…
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Political climate influences story line about delay in out-of-pocket limits under ACA
The New York Times had a big story about another Obamacare delay – the out-of-pocket limits will be put off…
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Health Policy core topic pages feature new data, links, concepts
The latest additions to AHCJ’s core curriculum pages on Health Policy include information about bundled payments, acute and chronic conditions,…
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GAO reports give journalists a starting place for local assessments
Ready or not, here they come – maybe. The Government Accountability Office has released two lengthy reports (and handy one-page summaries)…
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Vermont co-op plan suffers surprising setback
We’ve written several times about the role of co-ops in the states (here and here) and posted a lot of…
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Future of primary care: Who will take care of you?
The list of problems with primary care today is long and long-standing. Patients are frustrated and confused. Providers feel pressure…
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Writing about co-ops: A taste of the complexity
I wrote about co-ops as an undercovered Health Policy topic last month and provided some resources about how to cover…
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Health Policy: Understanding advanceable tax credit, multi-state plan
As implementation of the Affordable Care Act marches on, a host of new terms will become part of health journalists’…