Tag
reform
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Early trends emerge following Medicaid expansion
A couple of stories have begun to trickle out from states about the impact of Medicaid expansion on hospitals. This…
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Documents yield true cost of Illinois’ PR campaign for insurance coverage
When Illinois awarded a $33 million contract to a high-priced PR firm to promote insurance coverage under the Affordable Care…
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Using data to report on Health Policy
We posted some data tools from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the Health Policy beat and AHCJ’s New York…
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Mo. journalist shows how undocumented immigrants struggle for care under ACA
When the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, Tammy Worth, an award-winning freelance health and business writer in Kansas City,…
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Bringing local, national perspectives to report on ACA in rural Kentucky
Kentucky, a southern state implementing the ACA, has gotten a fair amount of media attention and we’ve highlighted some of…
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How one reporter strikes balance between policy, politics
Given the recent discussion on the AHCJ discussion list and elsewhere about the right balance between covering the politics of the…
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Costs keep going up for small businesses insuring their employees
Ideastream’s Sarah Jane Tribble took a look at how small businesses that voluntarily cover their workers could be in for…
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Explaining health care costs, spending in the first quarter
So health spending is going up. Big time. But health costs are still growing at historically slow rates. And the…
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What we know – and don’t know – about Marketplace enrollment
We posted yesterday on what we knew about enrollment as we waited for the updated HHS report – which of course…
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Looking ahead to new ACA enrollment numbers
I keep waiting for the final official HHS report on enrollment and the state and demographic breakdowns, but since we…