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SUMMARY:From big picture to local story: Reporting on the impact of the megabill
DESCRIPTION:The 2026 budget act signed into law on July 4 will impact the health of millions of Americans — especially those on Medicaid and other safety net programs including SNAP. How can journalists wrap their arms around these massive changes?  \n\n\n\nPanelists will highlight what aspects journalists should pay close attention to right now and how to use the power of storytelling to make these coming changes real for audiences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nLara Salahi\n\n\n\nAHCJ Health Beat Leader for Health EquityLara Salahi is AHCJ’s health beat leader on health equity. She’s an award-winning\, independent health journalist based in Boston\, whose work has appeared in local\, national and international television and digital news outlets. She is also the Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Endicott College in Beverley\, Mass. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nJoe Burns\n\n\n\nAHCJ Health Beat Leader for Health Policy and InsuranceJoseph Burns is AHCJ’s health beat leader on health policy and insurance. He’s an independent journalist based in Brewster\, Mass.\, who has covered health care\, health policy and the business of care since 1991. Burns has written for a variety of publications\, including The New York Times\, Fortune\, Hospitals & Health Networks\, and Medical Economics\, among others.  \n\n\n\nEarly in his journalism career\, Burns worked as a reporter in Connecticut\, first for The Wallingford Post (a weekly)\, and then The Meriden Record-Journal (a daily)\, and later for The Hartford Courant (the largest daily newspaper in the state and the nation’s oldest newspaper). For The Courant\, he was a reporter\, copy editor and regional news editor. During this time\, he also taught news writing at the University of Connecticut. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoanne Kenen\n\n\n\nJournalist-in-Residence\, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthContributing writer\, Politico MagazineLong-time health reporter on and off Capitol Hill. Oversaw all the health coverage at Politico for about a decade – now I’m a contributing writer to Politico Magazine\, and the Journalist-in-Residence at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health\, where I also teach. I’m a regular on the KHN “What the Health” podcast. I was AHCJ’s first topic leader (on health reform) and the conferences are a highlight of my year. @JoanneKenen \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKristen Jordan Shamus\n\n\n\nHealth reporter\, Detroit Free PressShamus’ work has taken her across the Mitten State\, the U.S. and to Europe. There\, she covered the stories of children who were evacuated from war-torn Ukraine to eastern Poland. She also led coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on Michiganders.  \n\n\n\nOver the past two decades\, Shamus has worked as a reporter\, an editor and columnist including at the Oakland Press and the News-Herald Newspapers. Shamus was among 20 journalists selected in 2019 for a National Press Foundation fellowship\, was a Mayo Clinic-Cronkite Medical Journalism fellow and a finalist for three consecutive years for the Richard Milliman Michigan Journalist of the Year award from the Michigan Press Association Foundation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatherine Hempstead\, Ph.D.\n\n\n\nSenior policy officer\, Robert Wood Johnson FoundationHempstead works on healthcare issues\, mostly those related to health insurance\, costs\, and access to care\, using data and analyses to illuminate policy discussions at the federal and state levels. She is particularly interested making new sources of data that can inform policy available to researchers and the public sector. Hempstead frequently speaks and writes about health insurance and other healthcare topics. She is also an active researcher\, and has authored numerous articles in the peer reviewed literature.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/from-big-picture-to-local-story-reporting-on-the-impact-of-the-megabill-2/
CATEGORIES:Aging,Event,Health Equity,Health Policy,Insurance,Webinar
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SUMMARY:'No one can see you now': What states are doing to boost primary care
DESCRIPTION:Evidence abounds that access to primary care improves health and lowers costs. According to one estimate\, the U.S. could save $67 billion a year if everyone saw a primary care provider as their main source of care. And yet\, only 5% of health care spending in this country goes to primary care\, less than in any other Western democracy.  \n\n\n\nThis webinar will examine what actions states — which regulate the insurance industry and run the Medicaid programs — have taken to increase spending on primary care and what effect these efforts can have on costs.  \n\n\n\nAHCJ Board President Felice Freyer\, an independent journalist\, will lead the discussion with three national experts on the topic. \n\n\n\nRelated webinars\n\n\n\n\nHow rising health care prices are harming employers and families\n\n\n\nHospital mergers and health care price increases: A primer for reporters\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar series\, supported by the Peterson-Milbank Program on Sustainable Health Care Costs\, covers the affordability of health care by diving into health care cost drivers and looking at solutions. Journalists will learn about ways that states\, employers and other stakeholders can promote affordable health care and will be able to tell these stories in the context of their state and local communities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nFelice J. Freyer\n\n\n\nIndependent journalistPresident\, AHCJ Board of Directors \n\n\n\nFelice J. Freyer is a health care journalist based in Rhode Island. For 10 years until last spring\, she was a health reporter at the Boston Globe\, where the crisis in primary care was among the topics she covered. Before the Globe\, Freyer was the medical writer at the Providence Journal. Now working independently\, she has published articles in the Boston Globe Magazine and Harvard Public Health Magazine\, as well as teaching journalism at Emerson College. She was elected to the AHCJ board in 2009 and currently serves as its president. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristopher F. Koller\n\n\n\nPresident\, Milbank Memorial FundFormer Rhode Island Health Insurance Commissioner \n\n\n\nChristopher F. Koller is President of the Milbank Memorial Fund and Publisher of the Milbank Quarterly. The Fund is a more than 100-year-old operating foundation that improves population health and health equity by connecting leaders with evidence and sound experience.  \n\n\n\nBefore joining the Fund in 2013\, he served the state of Rhode Island for eight years as the country’s first health insurance commissioner. Prior to that\, he was CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island. He has served in numerous national and state health policy advisory capacities and was elected to the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine in 2023.  Koller is also a professor of practice in the School of Public Health at Brown University. He resides in East Providence\, R.I. with his wife\, Colette Cook. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiane Rittenhouse\, M.D.\, MPH\n\n\n\nSenior fellow\, MathematicaProfessor of family medicine and health policy\, UCSF \n\n\n\nDiane Rittenhouse\, M.D.\, MPH\, has two decades of experience researching health care organization\, delivery\, finance\, and workforce — and translating that research into policy.  She received a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and has been recognized in the United States and Europe as a leading primary care researcher.   \n\n\n\nCurrently\, she is leading several projects focused on optimizing the primary care team workforce; strengthening the connection between primary care and health equity; diversifying California’s physician workforce; and understanding and supporting independently owned physician practices. She serves as an expert advisor for the development of the Health of U.S. Primary Care Scorecard recommended by the National Academies of Sciences\, Education and Medicine.  Dr. Rittenhouse is a family physician who practiced for 10 years in a community-based faculty practice at the University of California\, San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Probst\, PA-C\n\n\n\nPhysician assistant and primary care provider\, Sunrise Medical Clinic \n\n\n\nMatthew Probst is a Physician Assistant and Primary Care Provider at Sunrise Medical Clinic in Las Vegas\, New Mexico. He is also Director of Rural Engagement for the University of New Mexico Office for Community Health. In 2019 he was the American Academy of Physician Assistants PA of the Year and recipient of the Primary Care Community Leadership Award and the National Association of Rural Mental Health Schumacher Award for Excellence in Clinical Service.  \n\n\n\nIn 2020\, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich named him a Hometown Hero\, and New Mexico Magazine recognized him as a True Hero for COVID-19 response. In 2021\, Mr. Probst was the New Mexico Alliance of School-Based Health Center Champion and the National Organization of State Rural Health Offices Community Star. In addition to the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services\, Matt currently serves New Mexico on the Health Care Workforce Committee\, the Primary Care Council\, and the Aging and Long-Term Services Division Policy Advisory Committee.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/11/no-one-can-see-you-now-what-states-are-doing-to-boost-primary-care/
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