A look at how the country’s two biggest states have insured their kids helps explain why nearly 4 million American children remain without health coverage.
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A San Diego Business Journal examination, which included multiple public records requests, revealed the extent of the patient backlog.
This story was produced as part of a larger project led by Monica Vaughan, a participant in the 2019 California Fellowship.
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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.
This story was produced as part of a larger project led by Rich Lord, a participant in the USC Center for Health Journalism's 2019 Data Fellowship.
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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?
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“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.”
We're happy to announc the selection of 23 California journalists to be Fellows with the Center for Health Journalism’s annual California Fellowship. They will join us next week.
Democrats and Republicans on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce have asked the leader of the Indian Health Service to address two investigations that highlighted serious lapses in the agency’s care for Native Americans.