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Emily Bazar

Sacramento
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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

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-Enterprise.

The column is consumer-driven, and has generated more than 1,500 direct questions and comments to askemily@usc.edu and hundreds more to the newspaper and NPR affiliate sites where it appears.

In her role as Ask Emily, Bazar also regularly appears on KPCC’s Take Two and AirTalk, KQED’s Forum, KALW’s Your Call and Valley Public Radio.

Outside of Ask Emily, Bazar covers stories about Medi-Cal, children’s dental care and variation in the use of medical treatments.

Her reporting on Medi-Cal’s troubled children’s dental program was awarded the 2011 California Journalism Award for Special Feature/Enterprise Reporting.

Prior to joining the Center for Health Reporting, Bazar was a national reporter for USA TODAY, where she covered immigration, the effects of the economic recession and other topics.

Her first journalism job was at The Sacramento Bee. Over nine years, her beats included transportation, higher education, California politics, the energy crisis and immigration.

Bazar graduated from Stanford University.