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Emily Bazar

Sacramento
As seen in: CNN, CNN Business, MSN, The Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, NPR, PBS, Chicago Tribune and
Covers:  health policy, obamacare
Doesn't Cover: medicine, medical studies
California News Editor @KHNews/@CalHealthline. Formerly: @USATODAY, @CAHealthReport, @sacbee_news. @Stanford alum. Please wear a mask.

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Emily Bazar’s Biography

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Emily Bazar is a columnist and senior writer for the California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting, part of the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.

Bazar's column, “Ask Emily,” addresses readers’ questions and concerns about the Affordable Care Act. It appears in more than 25 newspapers and NPR affiliate websites across California, including the Los Angeles Daily News, The Sacramento Bee, The Orange County Register, The Fresno Bee and the Riverside Press-Enterpr…

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Help! Help! Out-of-network emergency woes

Help! Help! Out-of-network emergency woes

Last year, I developed an antibiotic-resistant infection on my arm when I was traveling on the East Coast. Wi…

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How to fight an unexpected bill under Obamacare

How to fight an unexpected bill under Obamacare

Do your homework. That's the advice that health insurance companies have long given. They tell you to verify …

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Months after applying, legions stuck waiting for Medi-Cal

Months after applying, legions stuck waiting for Medi-Cal

"One stop shop." "No wrong door." State officials have used those phrases since last year to describe the new…

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Network nightmares: When your doctor and hospital don't mix

Network nightmares: When your doctor and hospital don't mix

What good is it to have a health plan if you can't find doctors and hospitals to accept it? That question rus…

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Think you know what your Obamacare plan will cost you? Think again. | Center for Health Reporting

Think you know what your Obamacare plan will cost you? Think again. | Center for Health Reporting

Obamacare's inaugural open-enrollment period is over, and all you enrollees can breathe easy now. Someday I'd…

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As enforcer of Obamacare, the IRS faces limits

As enforcer of Obamacare, the IRS faces limits

Americans love their tax refunds. I know I do. So why is conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh advising …

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The Promise of RSV Prevention

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By Emily Bazar
| Scientific American Verified
This article is part of “Innovations In: RSV” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from MSD, Sanofi and AstraZeneca. After my dad died, I assumed that painful task of closing and transferring his accounts. Try as I might to keep it together, I often started crying when explaining the reason for the request. “I’m so sorry,” a customer service agent told me during one call, and she sounded like she meant it. She paused. “I just lost my mother,” she said.
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This doctor escaped Cambodia's killing fields, but she couldn't survive COVID-19

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By Emily Bazar
| MSN Verified
Linath Lim’s life was shaped by starvation. © Provided by The LA Times Dr. Linath Lim's life is depicted in this photo illustration. (KHN / The Lim family) She was not yet 13 when the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia and ripped her family apart. The totalitarian regime sent her and four siblings to work camps, where they planted rice and dug irrigation canals from sunrise to sunset — each surviving on two ladles of rice gruel a day. One disappeared, never to be found.
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Fresno doctor survived genocide in Cambodia but became a victim of COVID-19 in California

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By Emily Bazar
| Fresno Bee Verified
Kaiser Health News/California HealthLine Linath Lim’s life was shaped by starvation. She was not yet 13 when the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia and ripped her family apart. The totalitarian regime sent her and four siblings to work camps, where they planted rice and dug irrigation canals from sunrise to sunset — each surviving on two ladles of rice gruel a day. One disappeared, never to be found.
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