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Covering Health Reform
   After the Election


       Anna Gorman
     Los Angeles Times
Reporting reminders:

•Focus on real people, not policymakers
•Go to places where you can watch
health reform in action
•Cut through the rhetoric and translate
the jargon
•Write less about what people think
and more about what it looks like
•Look for where the money is going
Ideas in where people get care:

•Hospitals
•Private doctors
•Emergency rooms
•Clinics
•Managed care organizations
Ideas in how people get
           coverage:

•Medicaid
•Exchange
•Workplaces
•Private insurance
Ideas in the challenges facing
            people:

•Enrollment
•Access
•Those left uninsured
•Cost for individuals and families
•Cost for states
Some Sources:

•Federal govt: www.healthcare.gov
•State health departments
•Reporting on Health
•Kaiser Family Foundation
•National Academy of State Health
Policy
•Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
•Alliance for Health Reform
•Association of Health Care
Journalists

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Covering Health Reform After The Election

  • 1. Covering Health Reform After the Election Anna Gorman Los Angeles Times
  • 2.
  • 3. Reporting reminders: •Focus on real people, not policymakers •Go to places where you can watch health reform in action •Cut through the rhetoric and translate the jargon •Write less about what people think and more about what it looks like •Look for where the money is going
  • 4. Ideas in where people get care: •Hospitals •Private doctors •Emergency rooms •Clinics •Managed care organizations
  • 5. Ideas in how people get coverage: •Medicaid •Exchange •Workplaces •Private insurance
  • 6. Ideas in the challenges facing people: •Enrollment •Access •Those left uninsured •Cost for individuals and families •Cost for states
  • 7.
  • 8.
  • 9.
  • 10. Some Sources: •Federal govt: www.healthcare.gov •State health departments •Reporting on Health •Kaiser Family Foundation •National Academy of State Health Policy •Robert Wood Johnson Foundation •Alliance for Health Reform •Association of Health Care Journalists