Deductibles, Co-Pays & Costs, Oh My!
Forget for a moment the debacle of healthcare.gov's rollout. To understand the more analog challenge Obamacare faces today, you have to spend time with people like Gabrielle Terry.She's what's called a...
View ArticleEnrollment Deadline Is Here. But Holes in Data Leave Big Question Mark
The numbers are in and the Affordable Care Act is a hit--at least by Congressional Budget Office standards. The White House said last week it had reached its target of 6 million subscribers, days...
View Article8 Heart Attacks Later, N.J. Man Gets Health Insurance
Meet Robert Woodard.He's 58, jaunty and feels pretty healthy -- despite having had what he believes were eight heart attacks."See what happened was, when I had the first heart attack, I walked around...
View ArticleDoes the Affordable Care Act Mean the End of NJ's Health Centers?
Six months into its first year, the Affordable Care Act is dramatically reshaping the country's health care sector. Enrollment is above expectations, and insurance companies are so happy with the...
View ArticleObamacare Checkup in NJ: One Year In
Kai Wright, fellow of the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, recaps last night's event at NJPAC in Newark, which checked in on the state of healthcare in Newark and in New Jersey one year into...
View ArticleNew Jersey's Obamacare Limbo
If you're poor and qualify for free health insurance under Obamacare, then 18 Rector Street represents a particularly hellish place."I went around say, 9:30 to 10 a.m., it was about 300 or 400 people...
View ArticleObamacare Saved My Life. Then I Got the Bill.
There are many ways to judge the Affordable Care Act, but the well being of Jolie Solomon is surely one of them.Solomon is a single mom with a 19-year-old daughter. Both of them have had the kinds of...
View ArticleObamacare's Latino Problem
In New Jersey, Obamacare has cut the number of the uninsured by half. But one group crucial to the success of the program is missing: Latinos. Nearly one in five people in New Jersey are Latino, and...
View ArticleWhat We've Learned About Obamacare in NJ
One year after the troubled launch of healthcare.gov, the country is waiting to see if the federal government can handle this year's influx of applicants when open enrollment for 2015 begins...
View ArticleWhat NY/NJ Needs To Know About ACA 2.0
Open enrollment for year two of the Affordable Care Act starts Sunday. Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of health initiatives at Community Service Society and the co-founder of Healthcare for All New...
View ArticleThe Problem Obamacare Was Supposed to Fix
To understand how twisted and difficult it is to improve access to drug treatment, it helps to meet Mike.He's 24. He's in treatment for heroin addiction at the Turning Point Treatment Center in...
View ArticleWho is Still Signing up for ObamaCare in Newark?
WNYC and New Jersey Public Radio teamed up with New Jersey Citizen Action to host an Obamacare enrollment fair in Newark on Sunday. Several of the people who enrolled had gone years without any health...
View ArticleFarewell, Obamacare Subsidies? NJ Awaits Ruling. NY Doesn't.
If New Jersey officials are taking any steps to prepare for subsidies disappearing from the federal health exchange, they’re not sharing it with the public.Asked about contingency plans if the U.S....
View ArticleSupreme Court's ACA Ruling: 200,000 NJ Patients Cheer, Republicans Jeer
To the relief of nearly 200,000 New Jersey residents, the Supreme Court ruled to leave the Affordable Care Act's federal health care subsidies in place.Around 172,000 New Jerseyans receive the...
View ArticleAfrican-Americans Reluctant to Treat Mental Illness
Although federal studies estimate that as many as 25 percent of Americans have some form of mental illness, far fewer seek treatment. In Newark and its surrounding area, despite a huge bump in health...
View ArticleHospital Struggles to Stay Open Awaiting Christie Approval to Sell to Highest...
Karim Aquil Sharif has been a patient at every hospital in Newark. He knows all the emergency room doctors.“I used to know them all on a first name basis,” Sharif said. “And all the ambulance drivers...
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