Ready to start your health policy education? Look no further! I’ve compiled some of my favorite resources (journalists, research, books, podcasts, etc.) to get you started!
Bookmark to Read
- “The Cost Conundrum” by Atul Guwande, The New Yorker
- “The Triple Aim: Care, Health, and Cost” by Don Berwick et. al., Health Affairs
- “The Real Reason the U.S. Has Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance” by Aaron E. Carroll, New York Times
- Everything written by Sarah Kliff
- “Is Health Care a Right?” by Atul Guwande, The New Yorker
- “American’s Epidemic of Unnecessary Care” by Atul Guwande, The New Yorker
- Health Insurance Hustle Series, ProPublica
Follow folks with health policy know-how on Twitter:
- Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff), Senior Policy Correspondent, Vox.com
- Margot Sanger-Katz (@sangerkatz), Domestic Correspondent, New York Times
- James Hamblin (@jameshamblin), Writer, The Atlantic
- Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt), Former Acting Administrator, CMS (2015-2017)
- Leana Wen (@DrLeanaWen), President of Planned Parenthood, Former Baltimore City Health Commissioner
- Olga Khazan (@olgakhazan), Staff Writer, The Atlantic
- Karen DeSalvo (@KBDeSalvo), Professor of Medicine & Population Health, UT Austin Dell Medical School//Fmr. US Asst. Secretary for Health & National Coordinator for Health IT
- Siddhartha Mukherjee (@DrSidMukherjee), Cancer Physician & Researcher at Columbia University//Author
- Atul Guwande (@Atul_Guwande), Surgeon at Brigham & Women’s//Writer//Executive Director of Ariadne Labs
Add to Your Reading List
- An American Sickness by Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal
- Every book by Dr. Atul Guwande
- What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear by Dr. Danielle Ofri
Subscribe for the Morning Commute
- The Pulse by WHYY
- What the Health? by Kaiser Health News
- Vox’s The Weeds
- Pulse Check by Politico
- The Impact from Vox
- An Arm and a Leg
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