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Margot Sanger-Katz

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Covers:  medicare, elections, medicaid, hhs, entitlements, health policy, congress, health reform, obamacare, the business of health care, affordable care act
Doesn't Cover: consumer health, preliminary medical research
Covering health care metaphors at @nytimes @upshotnyt. Popcorn enthusiast. On Signal: @sangerkatz.01
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Health Care: Great for the Economy Today, Terrible Later

Health Care: Great for the Economy Today, Terrible Later

National Journal — Hospitals like Pittsburgh’s UPMC created enough jobs to end the recession. If they keep it up, they’ll wreck the economy.
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Why We Trust Doctors

Why We Trust Doctors

National Journal — We’re cynics about insurance companies and critics of big health care systems. So why do we still believe in physicians?
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The New Goliaths

The New Goliaths

National Journal — The Affordable Care Act was designed to lower costs. Instead, by encouraging hospitals to merge, it could boost the price of care.
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All Those People Who Were Supposed to Get Insurance Probably Won't

All Those People Who Were Supposed to Get Insurance Probably Won't

National Journal — The Supreme Court decision last year holding that “Obamacare” was legal was seen as a victory. But it eviscerated the president’s plan to cover poor Americans.
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White House Has Known For Months Obamacare Implementation Wouldn't Work

White House Has Known For Months Obamacare Implementation Wouldn't Work

National Journal — If you've been reading all the Obamacare stories lately, you might get the impression that the administration has just realized it will not be able to implement the massive health reform as designed. It has known for months.
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Wal-Mart's Super-Counterintuitive Health Care Plan

Wal-Mart's Super-Counterintuitive Health Care Plan

National Journal — Instead of skimping on the most expensive care, the giant retailer is sending its workers to top-tier hospitals. Turns out, it’s a great way to save money.
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Nothing to Smile About

Nothing to Smile About

National Journal — The number of teeth in this country grows, even as the number of dentists shrinks. Guess who gets squeezed out.
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Why Obama's Optimism on Health Costs Is Premature

Why Obama's Optimism on Health Costs Is Premature

National Journal — In his State of the Union address this week, President Obama took credit for a puzzling but welcome trend: milder increases in health care costs. "Already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of health care costs," Obama declared. But the president's optimism may be premature.
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'Obamacare' Is the Law of the Land, but 3 Enormous Challenges Loom

'Obamacare' Is the Law of the Land, but 3 Enormous Challenges Loom

National Journal — How quickly the politics of health care has changed. Just over a month ago, the country was debating whether President Obama's health reform law, aka "Obamacare," should be saved or scrapped. Now, with the president's reelection, that's all settled, and regulators, states, employers, and health care providers are rushing to get ready for a transformed system that is coming in 2014. But the lingering uncertainty around the law's implementation—and its expansive ambitions—means that the work to be done between now and January 2014 is enormous.
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Why the Republican Plan to Reform Health Entitlements Could Really Make Them More Expensive

Why the Republican Plan to Reform Health Entitlements Could Really Make Them More Expensive

National Journal — It turns out that government insurance is much cheaper than private coverage—pitting the GOP principles of fiscal prudence and private enterprise against each other. Buying commercial coverage for poor Arkansans will bring the state and nation closer to the Republican health care vision, in which everyone shops for individual policies in a competitive marketplace. Too bad that approach doesn’t save money.
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The Competition Cure-All

The Competition Cure-All

National Journal — The Republican candidates say that proliferating private health insurance plans will lead to innovation and cost-cutting. So far, the evidence isn’t there.
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Obama More Flexible on Medicare Than Rhetoric Suggests

Obama More Flexible on Medicare Than Rhetoric Suggests

National Journal — In his convention speech in Charlotte, President Obama vowed to block the Republican Medicare reform plan because "no American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies." But back in Washington, his Health and Human Services Department is launching a pilot program that would shift up to 2 million of the poorest and most-vulnerable seniors out of the federal Medicare program and into private health insurance plans overseen by the states. The administration has accepted applications from 18 states to participate in the program, which would give states money to purchase managed-care plans for people who are either disabled or poor enough to qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid.
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10 Things to Know About the Medicare Debate

10 Things to Know About the Medicare Debate

National Journal — The campaign conversation we're having now was accurately predicted last year by Rep. Steve Israel of chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: "Medicare, Medicare, Medicare." With all the spin and bluster about what the candidates would do to the beloved health insurance program for seniors, here are 10 oft-distorted facts you need to know about the program and the plans.
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Both Obama and Romney Medicare Plans Fail To Solve the Cost Problem

Both Obama and Romney Medicare Plans Fail To Solve the Cost Problem

National Journal — Fight as they may about whose plan will shore up Medicare's fiscal future, neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney has a proposal to address Medicare's real long-term cost problem. The dramatic growth projected for the program is largely courtesy of the aging of the baby-boom generation, whose members began retiring last year and are set to nearly double Medicare enrollment by 2030. That demographic bulge will ultimately overwhelm both candidates' proposals for modest reductions in the program's per-capita cost growth.
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Déjà Vu

Déjà Vu

National Journal — The biggest losers in the Obama administration's Supreme Court victory are the poor.
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Health Care Ruling Won't Stop All of Industry's Changes

Health Care Ruling Won't Stop All of Industry's Changes

National Journal — Whatever the Supreme Court does on Thursday, there's no time machine for the health care system. Legally, a ruling reversing or eviscerating the Affordable Care Act could bring the country back to 2009. But practically, there's no going back. In the two years since the health care legislation became law, big players in the industry have begun reshaping their business practices, changing their structures, and altering the rules of play in ways that will be difficult to reverse.
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