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Why did so few Iowa Medicaid members participate in the state’s incentive program?
Iowa's version of the Medicaid expansion sought to lure more people into receiving preventative care by offering to waive monthly premiums. The incentive program has largely failed, and here's why.
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Island of Doubt: How to watch out for fish stories, on land or water
Paying attention to the language that people use when they are relating something they say happened to them is one of the best techniques you can use for “catching and releasing” those dubious fish stories.
As Senate rushes ahead, the missing debate over Medicaid poses dire risks for rural, elderly Americans
The media’s lopsided focus on the fortunes of the Obamacare exchanges has obscured the far bigger changes Republicans have announced for Medicaid.
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Senate’s plan to cap Medicaid could hit children with special health care needs especially hard
More than a third of children with special needs rely entirely on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program for their care. Cuts to Medicaid funding could prove disastrous for such families.
Health Media Jobs & Opportunities: Inside Washington Publishers, mindbodygreen, California Health Report
Check out this week's full roundup of job opportunities in print and online.
Overlooked: As women go to jail in record numbers, who's watching out for their kids? No one.
No one in the criminal justice system is responsible for the safety of children whose mothers go to jail, an investigation by The Dallas Morning News has found. The finding that holds true in most communities across the country.
Milwaukee's infant mortality numbers improve but the racial disparity is still wide
This article was produced as a project for the University of Southern California Center for Health Journalism's 2016 National Fellowship.
In booming Philadelphia neighborhoods, lead-poisoned soil is resurfacing
Breakneck construction in Philadelphia has unearthed a toxic legacy, coating playgrounds and backyards with dangerous levels of lead dust.
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The growing crisis in academic medicine is a threat to medical research
Generations of young and mid-career physician researchers are struggling to find positions, as hyper-competitive grants and tight labor markets make for tough working conditions in academic medicine.
Conflicts of interest in health care journalism. Who’s watching the watchdogs?
"I don’t think we talk often enough about why it matters if health care industry entities are allowed to advertise within, or sponsor, health care journalism content," writes HealthNewsReview's Gary Schwitzer.
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Island of Doubt: What to do when the lie becomes the story
When it turns out a source has been lying to you about a central theme of a story you care deeply about, it can be agonizing to have to own up to that fact.
