Tag
medicaid
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Explaining the numbers behind the Medicaid expansion
One of the questions that I got from colleagues after AHCJ’s post-Supreme Court webcast was about the cutoff for expanded…
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Oral health care crisis in spotlight with documentary, web chat
Frontline and The Center for Public Integrity have investigated the flaws in the American oral health care system in a…
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Drug pricing, rebates to shift with Health Policy
Drug rebates aren’t the headline grabbing element of Health Policy; for some of us they are probably in the eye-glazing…
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Plenty of stories in how ACA could affect veterans’ health care
While preparing for a veterans health panel I moderated at the recent AHCJ conference in Atlanta, I remembered an article…
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Berwick shares thoughts on media coverage of health care, reform
Don Berwick has worked with reporters as part of his jobs at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and, most recently,…
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Why are rural Westerners killing themselves?
Writing for ABC News, Alan Farnham seeks to explain the jump in suicide rates in the rural American West, particularly…
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Americans unprepared to pay for long-term care
In the Chicago Tribune, Deborah Shelton examines how unprepared Americans are to pay for their own long-term care needs as…
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Long-term care insurance premiums jump
As the population ages and costs continue rising, paying for long-term care is a big issue for middle class families.…
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Aging in place becoming more popular, possible
In the latest installment in The Associated Press series on growing old in America, David Crary explores how the health…
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Medicaid programs slow to act against system exploiters
At ProPublica, senior reporters Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber have published the latest turn in their ongoing analysis of conflicts…