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As ACA turns 10, some top supporters look back
With the 10th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act approaching next month (March 23), I want to flag this video from the summer of 2018, when KHN’s Julie Rovner interviewed the five committee chairs...
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Covering crowdsourced medical bills: Don’t skip these important questions
You’ve all seen the GoFundMe and other crowdsourcing campaigns for health care, on social media or elsewhere. They are probably even more common than you realize. A study from the NORC at the...
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VOX series examines the approach of four countries to universal coverage.
Dylan Scott In a new How I Did It essay, Dylan Scott of Vox explains how he and colleagues Ezra Klein and Tara Golshan created their multi-part series “Everybody Covered“ about how four countries...
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Fate of COBRA reforms in the HEROES Act
Photo: Jernej Furman via Flickr Democrats in Congress have several ways that they’d like to address the millions of newly unemployed and uninsured Americans during the coronavirus pandemic, including...
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Pandemic changes, or pauses, state approaches to health coverage
Photo: Yuri Samoilov via Flickr Before the new coronavirus pandemic, expanding health insurance was a hot topic in the presidential campaign. States were considering a wide range of health coverage...
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House passes first bill to expand the ACA
Photo: Robert Couse-Baker via Flickr The House recently passed a Health Policy bill – and it’s a definite win for the incrementalists. The Democratic presidential primaries – which now feel like they...
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Biden’s health plan likely to travel a rough road in the Senate
Photo: Budiey via Flickr President-elect Joe Biden has an ambitious plan to build upon the Affordable Care Act, in effect evolving “Obamacare” into “Bidencare.” But depending on the outcome of the two...
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How Biden can address health care reform ― without the Senate
Photo: medipics1066 via Flickr In my last post, I addressed President-elect Joe Biden’s proposals for expanding the Affordable Care Act and the slim likelihood that programs like a public option could...
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How I did it: Reporting on COVID deaths in state veterans homes
Photo by Tim Evanson via flickr Countless media reports have looked at the devastating effects of COVID-19 in private and public nursing homes since the start of the pandemic. However, it can be more...
View ArticleTip sheet: Reporting on the health sector’s big impact on greenhouse gas...
Even before the extreme weather of this summer, health care systems had become increasingly aware that climate change endangers human health. And that the burden disproportionately falls on the...
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