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insurance
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Rising medical debt spawns problems, fosters solutions
Kelley Weiss, of the California HealthCare Foundation’s Center for Health Reporting, dug deep into the rising mountain of medical debt…
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Why are some patients stuck in hospitals for weeks, months?
Patients typically complain about being released from the hospital sooner than they would like. So Yanick Rice Lamb, associate publisher…
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Uninsured face delays, increased risks en route to long-term care
Writing for Heart & Soul, Yanick Rice Lamb offers up a comprehensive take on the special challenges patients and hospitals…
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Reporters can explore states’ options for creating exchanges
Give me an f… … for Flexibility, that is. Flexibility is the buzzword these days, as federal health officials coax…
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Shifts in health care delivery raise questions
Christopher Weaver at Kaiser Health News has done two stories recently on new care models driven by insurers eager to…
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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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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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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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Potter: Insurance industry taking advantage of media’s inattention to Health Policy
Wendell Potter, the former insurance company public relations executive who has been critical of the industry, writes that journalists who…
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Coverage of insurance exchanges needs context
During the past few days, I have read quite a bit of local coverage about health insurance exchanges from about …