Insights

<p>In 2007, San Francisco embarked on a rare and bold experiment, resolving to provide universal health care to its residents. Four years later, Healthy San Francisco has an enrollment of 54,000 people — between half and three-quarters of the estimated uninsured population. But the city has dug deep

<p>What you need to know about Medicare and why I believe it's the most important health story of 2012.</p>

<p><span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes the key fact for a story can be found in a death certificate.</span></p>

<p>Share your online multimedia expertise and join the Everyday Health team, which currently seeks a YouTube specialist. Additionally, those with investigative reporting experience might want to apply for a fellowship with Harvard University.</p>

<p>Terri Langford fought one of the largest government agencies on the planet — the Center for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) — and won big. Here's more on how she faced down dismissive bureaucrats to report on fraud and mismanagement.</p>

<p>The Los Angeles Times examines the apparent failure of the city's much-touted healthier school lunch program, which appears to be a "flop" with students. Journalist Lisa Aliferis says the program may be more successful than anyone realizes.</p>

<p>Little evidence for ER wait marketing claims, new EPA rules on mercury emissions, and news about a controversial chronic fatigue finding, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>The Open Notebook's Pitch Database gives freelance health journalists great examples and lessons to help them get their stories into magazines.</p>

<p>Voting on a medical marijuana bureaucracy, health reform developments to watch in 2012, another delayed Medicare doc fix and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>My second annual article on some of the health care news releases I saved in 2011 before I clean out the folder and start all over again in 2012.</p>