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Tracie Potts's blog posts

posted 08/22/2022
Is air conditioning is a necessity or a luxury? Rising temps may decide the question for us.
posted 06/15/2022
COVID taught us a lot about feeding people, especially children. Here's how we can make the lessons stick.
posted 02/22/2022
Learning how to live with COVID is a huge challenge. But there’s more to consider in weighing our comfort levels than just the virus.
posted 03/30/2021
There’s a silent epidemic of grief sweeping across America, and journalists who report on coronavirus feel it just like everyone else.
posted 11/13/2020
Years of attacks on the ACA leave families in constant fear of losing coverage. The pandemic raises the stakes for millions of people.
posted 06/22/2020
A reporter reflects on the deeper issues behind a split-second decision she faced on air when asked for her reaction to George Floyd's death.
posted 03/06/2018
2017 National Fellow Tracie Potts gives a behind-the-scenes look at the ever-changing nature of her Fellowship project chronicling health reform across the country.
posted 02/27/2018
A tour of four communities across America revealed a common theme when it comes to the health reform: "Over and over we heard the same thing: people feel forgotten. They feel Washington is not listening."
posted 01/31/2018
Susan Moore has colon cancer. She couldn’t afford transportation to dialysis three times a week. Until recently, she wanted to die. Her story struck reporter Tracie Potts especially hard.
posted 07/19/2017
Uncertainty about proposed budget and policy changes in Washington have put low-income and working families — and the programs and agencies that serve them — on high alert.

Tracie Potts's Blog

Is air conditioning is a necessity or a luxury? Rising temps may decide the question for us. more »
posted 08/22/22
COVID taught us a lot about feeding people, especially children. Here's how we can make the... more »
posted 06/15/22
Learning how to live with COVID is a huge challenge. But there’s more to consider in weighing our... more »
posted 02/22/22

Tracie Potts's Work

"Data is the backbone of good reporting, but people make the audience care," writes broadcast reporter Tracie Potts. Here's how she finds the people that make the story.
In her final L.A. County-based story, Potts visited a Eisner Health community clinic in Los Angeles County to talk to patients, physicians and administrators about what would happen to patient care if Congress failed to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
When a couple with three children signed into their state insurance marketplace to renew coverage, they found that the cost had more than tripled.