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One State’s Sprint for its Share of $50 Billion for Rural Health
We follow Maryland’s 52-day rush to convince the Trump administration to give the state new funding to transform rural health care.
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What You Need to Know About the New $50 Billion Rural Health Fund
The Trump administration recently announced how much money each state will receive under an ambitious 5-year initiative known as the Rural Health Transformation Program.
Letter from the Editor: A Consequential Year
A message from Tradeoffs founder and executive editor Dan Gorenstein.
Tradeoffs Adds Veteran Health Journalist Julie Wernau to Reporting Team
Tradeoffs has added veteran journalist Julie Wernau as its newest reporter and producer.
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Open Enrollment
The Quiet Cuts Making ACA Enrollment Harder
Higher premiums and penalties have made shopping for Obamacare plans more confusing this year. Navigator programs, a resource for consumers, lost about 90% of federal funding across more than two dozen states earlier this year.…
What Happens if Obamacare Subsidies Shrink?
Excerpts of a live conversation with two top health economists about how extra federal support has helped millions of Americans access health insurance, and what would happen if that aid went away.
Medicare’s Open Enrollment Mess
People shopping for Medicare coverage struggle with too many choices, too little help and an alarming amount of deception.
Artificial Intelligence
Lots of Hospitals Are Using AI. Few Are Testing For Bias
New research sheds light on how many hospitals are using artificial intelligence, what they’re using AI for, and what it means for patients and policymakers.
Patients Push to Shape the Future of AI
One advocate’s vision for the crucial role patients must play in the growth of health care AI.
How Patient Privacy Could Hurt AI
Why one expert says too much focus on privacy could make health care AI biased and less effective.
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