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2016

• Boston Globe: How did the opioid epidemic get so bad?, by Dr. Sushrut Jangi (Mar 28, 2016)

Dec 2015

• New York Times: State-Level Brawls Over Medicaid Reflect Divide in G.O.P., by Robert Pear (Dec 26, 2015)
• Wall St Journal: Study Finds Mechanism That Causes Normal Cells to Become Cancerous, by Ron Winslow (Dec 23, 2015)
• New York Times: The Experts Were Wrong About the Best Places for Better and Cheaper Health Care, by Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz (Dec 14, 2015)
• New York Times: As Health Care Act Insurance Deadline Nears, ‘Unprecedented Demand’, by Robert Pear (Dec 13, 2015)
• Wall St Journal: How Pfizer Set the Cost of Its New Drug at $9,850 a Month, by Jonathan D. Rockoff (Dec 9, 2015)
• Wall St Journal: Growth in U.S. Health-Care Spending Picks Up, by Stephanie Armour (Dec 2, 2015)

Nov 2015

• Wall St Journal: Why the U.S. Pays More Than Other Countries for Drugs, by Jeanne Whalen (Nov 30, 2015)
• Bloomberg View: Obamacare Insurers Are Suffering. That Won't End Well., by Megan McArdle (Nov 19, 2015)
• Boston Globe: High-deductible health plans make Affordable Care Act ‘unaffordable,’ critics say, by Tracy Jan (Nov 15, 2015)
• Wall St Journal: The Slow-Motion Implosion of ObamaCare, by Andy Puzder (Nov 1, 2015)
• Wall St Journal: Health Insurers Struggle to Profit From ACA Plans, by Anna Wilde Mathews (Nov 1, 2015)

Oct 2015

• New York Times: We Mapped the Uninsured. You'll Notice a Pattern., by Quoctrung Bui and Margot Sanger-Katz (Oct 29, 2015)
• New York Times: Many Need to Shop Around on HealthCare.gov as Prices Jump, U.S. Says, by Robert Pear and Abby Goodnough (Oct 29, 2015)
• Wall St Journal: Premiums for Health Insurance Bought on Exchanges to Climb in 2016, by Stephanie Armour (Oct 26, 2015)
• Boston Globe: Romney: “Without Romneycare, I don’t think we would have Obamacare.”, by James Pindell (Oct 22, 2015)
• Boston Globe: New approach to schizophrenia puts emphasis on talk therapy, by Benedict Carey (Oct 19, 2015)
• New York Times: Valeant’s Drug Price Strategy Enriches It, but Infuriates Patients and Lawmakers, by Andrew Pollack and Sabrina Tavernise (Oct 3, 2015)

Aug 2015

• Wall St Journal: Insurers Win Big Health-Rate Increases, by Louise Radnofsky and Stephanie Armour (Aug 26, 2015)
• Wall St Journal: HealthCare.gov Saw Almost 950,000 Sign Up After Open Enrollment, by Stephanie Armour (Aug 13, 2015)
• Wall St Journal: How Identity Theft Sticks You With Hospital Bills, by Stephanie Armour (Aug 7, 2015)
• Boston Globe: Doctors lobby to keep lid of secrecy on industry payments for medical education, by Tracy Jan (Aug 5, 2015)

July 2015

• Wall St Journal: U.S. Health-Spending Growth Jumped to 5.5% in 2014, by Louise Radnofsky (July 28, 2015)
• Wall St Journal: Government Report Cites Shortfalls in Medicare’s Screening Process for Doctors, by Christopher Weaver (July 21, 2015)
• Wall St Journal: Federal Health Exchange Approved Fake Claims, by Stephanie Armour (July 15, 2015)
• The Commonwealth: Financing the Affordable Care Act, by John E. McDonough (July 10, 2015)

June 2015

• Wall St Journal: Insurers, Hospitals Relieved as Supreme Court Upholds Subsidies, by Anna Wilde Mathews and Christopher Weaver (June 25, 2015)
• Wall St Journal: With Supreme Court Health Law Ruling, Republicans Avoid Internal Fight on Subsidies, by Kristina Peterson And Isaac Stanley-Becker (June 25, 2015)
• Wall St Journal: Unanswered Health Law Question: So Why Was It Written that Way?, by Jess Bravin (June 25, 2015)
• New York Times: Obamacare Ruling May Have Just Killed State-Based Exchanges, by Margot Sanger-Katz (June 24, 2015)
• New York Times: Supreme Court Allows Nationwide Health Care Subsidies, by Adam Liptak (June 24, 2015)
• New York Times: In Vermont, Frustrations Mount Over Affordable Care Act, by Abby Goodnough (June 4, 2015)

Feb 2015

• HBO's John Oliver Targets Big Pharma Corruption (Feb 10, 2015)