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Project: Forgotten Voices: Stern advice (in her own words)
In depressed towns in Kentucky, residents struggle to earn enough to afford health insurance. Other stories in the series include: Forgotten Voices (Part 1) Forgotten Voices: Children's health reform Forgotten Voices: Spiritual health Forgotten Voices: Health nutritio
Project: Forgotten Voices: Rural health
Whitesburg, Kentucky is Trump country, but even though most Kentucky voters supported Trump, they want to keep the improvements in health care they’ve received under the Affordable Care Act.
Project: Forgotten Voices: Shop around
As the Affordable Care Act's open enrollment period gets underway, there's a great deal of confusion about it, and funds have been slashed for advertising and navigators, which help people figure out which plan to select.
Project: Forgotten Voices: Marketplace mom (in her own words)
A mom explains the bind her family is in: health insurance costs too much, but she knows the family needs it, as one child was born with a cleft palate and may need future surgery. \
Project: Forgotten Voices: Marketplace meltdown
Only one insurer takes part in Tennessee’s insurance marketplace, and April Wilder isn’t sure the family can afford the growing premiums.
Project: Forgotten Voices (Part 1--Overview)
As the open enrollment period for health insurance from the nation’s government-run marketplaces opened, Americans found a changed landscape.

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Summer heat is now an annual health crisis for millions of exposed Americans
Is air conditioning is a necessity or a luxury? Rising temps may decide the question for us. more »
posted 08/22/22
The pandemic showed us how many American families are left hungry. Now’s the time to change that.
COVID taught us a lot about feeding people, especially children. Here's how we can make the... more »
posted 06/15/22
In the next phase of the pandemic, facts will become our new vaccine
Learning how to live with COVID is a huge challenge. But there’s more to consider in weighing our... more »
posted 02/22/22

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Lesson: How to find the ‘forgotten voices’ that will give your health stories power
"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.
Project: Forgotten Voices: Too Much (in their own words)
When a couple with three children signed into their state insurance marketplace to renew coverage, they found that the cost had more than tripled.