How the system rewards end-of-life intervention
Caitlan Carroll of American Public Media’s Marketplace tries to explain why, even though “80 percent of patients say they don’t want to be hospitalized or given intensive care during the last phase of their lives,” so many people get intensive medical intervention at the end anyway.
In the end, Carroll finds that family and friends don’t want to lose a loved one, doctors don’t want to lose a patient, and doctors aren’t compensated for hospice and palliative care the same way they are for aggressive intervention.
Carroll’s report is the first installment of a two-part series funded by a California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship.
MPR builds health-reform impact calculator
Filed under: Health care reform, Hot Health Headline
As part of her series on the effects of health care reform on small businesses, Minnesota Public Radio’s Elizabeth Stawicki and Bob Collins created an online calculator/quiz for employers wondering if reforms will apply to them.
It’s a simple way to use the Web to personalize health care reform and test the effects of reform.
Tip: If you’re just looking to put the tool through its paces, try the “will you be assessed under pay or play” option. It’s the most fully realized of the four.
Series on drug sales wins national Murrow award
AHCJ member Kelley Weiss of Capital Public Radio in Sacramento has won a national Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. The awards recognize excellence in electronic journalism.
Kelley Weiss
Weiss was honored in the investigative category for her series about the hidden world of illegal prescription drugs sold at swap meets and botanicas.
Weiss won first place in the Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism for the same piece. She also was a member of the inaugural class of AHCJ’s Midwest Health Journalism Program Fellows. (Applications currently being accepted for the next class.)
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