Danielle Ivory is a reporter at The New Yok Times.  She formerly was a reporter at the Bloomberg Government in DC and the Huffington Post Investigative Fund. She has been a senior fellow and research director at Bill Moyers Journal and the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy. She has also worked as a production assistant with Weekend Edition Sunday on National Public Radio, and as a reporter for The Nation, one of Thailand's national English-language newspapers. Ivory was a finalist for the 2010 online journalism award from Investigative Reporters and Editors and received the 2010 Media Award from Mental Health America for national online reporting. Ivory graduated from Princeton and earned her master’s degree at the University of Oxford. She grew up in Pullman, Washington.

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Insurers may lose upper hand in talks with states on Medicaid

<p>Who will be the winners and losers amid health reform's planned expansion of Medicaid? In her reporting, Danielle Ivory finds shifting power dynamics and unexpected financial risks for insurers.<span>&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>

Investigating Medicaid: How will the Poorest Patients Fare?

<p>Health reform will greatly expand the existing Medicaid program to provide health care to millions more Americans below the poverty line. It seems like a good idea on its face, but under the current system, patients covered by Medicaid generally are the unhealthiest people in the country. It's a case where having insurance coverage does not necessarily mean that you have access to good care.</p><p>It begs the question: If we add more people to an already overloaded system, will this exacerbate existing problems?</p>