"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.
Project: As Congress scrambles to pass budget, funding for community health clinics hang in the balance
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.
Project: Forgotten Voices: Paying too much
Health policy experts say that 7 million working Americans earn just a little too much to qualify for subsidies, which means that insurance is unaffordable.
Both parents and physicians at a community clinic in Los Angeles County worry about what will happen if Medicaid is turned into a block grant system, as the Trump Administration has proposed.
Project: Forgotten Voices: Spiritual health
Pastor Daryl Arnold was homeless just a few years ago and couldn't afford to take his own daughter to the ER. Now he is helping local health navigators enroll people needing affordable coverage.
Project: Forgotten Voices: Health nutrition
One of Tracie Potts’ three L.A. County-focused stories documented an emerging trend in community health clinics: giving away food to families that sometimes don’t have enough to eat.
2017 "Country Doctor of the Year" Dr. Van Breeding weighs in on how to treat patients when Medicaid is at risk.
Project: Forgotten Voices: Enrollment
Despite the Trump Administration’s efforts to discourage enrollment in health coverage through the government marketplaces, enrollment is up in some places, including Maruland.
Project: Forgotten Voices: Giving up
Sarah Moore, a Kentucky woman who needs thrice-weekly dialysis because of kidney failure, can't afford transport to the clinic and may give up the life-saving treatments.
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