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medicare
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Reading lists for health care journalists
In her column for Generations Beat Online, AHCJ member Eileen Beal offers a reading list for health journalists and focuses…
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Lieberman: Joe’s looking out for folks at home
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) has been a vocal burr in the saddle of the Democrat majority’s push for health care…
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We have public options now. Are they any good?
ProPublica’s Sabrina Shankman reviews America’s existing “public options” for health care, finding mixed results and limited utility. In addition to…
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Bundled payments may improve care, lower costs
Kaiser Health News’ Phil Galewitz looks at bundling hospital payments, a possible solution to the confusion and cost of separate…
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Rural health costs: Lower, but just as uneven
Writing on the rural news site Daily Yonder, Bill Bishop and Julie Ardery take a look at the Dartmouth Atlas,…
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They gave us Part D, now protect it from reform
ProPublica’s Olga Pierce reports that at least 25 of the folks who helped push through pharma-friendly Medicare Part D six…
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Workshop explored issues of aging America
More than 70 people attended AHCJ’s Aging in the 21st Century workshop last weekend, where former HHS secretary Donna Shalala…
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How will Health Policy affect Medicare?
The Associated Press’ Carla Johnson looks at how health care reform might affect those currently covered by Medicare, focusing on…
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S. Dakota may be model of health-care efficiency
Jon Walker of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports on how South Dakota’s status as the 47th cheapest market in…
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Moon on Medicare reform, supplmental insurance
As part of her Excluded Voices series in the Columbia Journalism Review, Trudy Lieberman, president of AHCJ’s board of directors,…