A San Diego Business Journal examination, which included multiple public records requests, revealed the extent of the patient backlog.
Health Insurance and Costs
Support for Curcio’s reporting on this project also came from the Fund for Journalism on Child Well-Being, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern California.
Hospitals are expected to divert more of those savings back into their communities via public health programs since the ACA was passed. But are they?
April Xu wrote this story while participating in the 2018 National Data Fellowship.
“For supporters of the ACA, we dodged a bullet,” said UCLA's Gerald Kominski. “However, just because the Dems won the House does not mean the ACA is safe at all.”
April Xu wrote this story while participating in the 2018 National Data Fellowship.
Did the media learn anything from covering previous rounds of health reform during the Clinton and Obama eras? You wouldn't necessarily think so from reading recent coverage, argues Trudy Lieberman.
This story was produced as part of a larger project led by April Xu, a participant in the USC Center for Health Journalism's 2018 Data Fellowship.
Other stories in this series include:
This story was produced as part of a larger project led by April Xu, a participant in the USC Center for Health Journalism's 2018 Data Fellowship.
Other stories in this series include:
It takes a lot of time to explain how the health care system works to patients and their caregivers with limited English proficiency. There are numerous forms that need to be read and understood. People often sign those forms whether or not they understand them.