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About Jay @JayHancock1

Jay Hancock is a senior correspondent for Kaiser Health News. Before joining Kaiser Health News in 2012 he wrote about economics, business and international diplomacy for The Baltimore Sun for nearly two decades.

Jay’s Recent Stories

Health Dec 31

HHS Innovation Lab attempting to change how health care operates

The health law’s ambitious lab for transforming how medicine is delivered and financed submitted its official report card to Congress on Tuesday, boasting of a few early results but mostly showing many works in progress.

Health Dec 15

Small businesses drop health coverage and shift employees to Obamacare

For two decades Atlanta restaurant owner Jim Dunn offered a group health plan to his managers and helped pay for it. That ended Dec. 1, after the Affordable Care Act made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.

Health Dec 08

Federal defense contractors find a new profitable business: Obamacare

In a way that is deeply changing Washington contracting, growth opportunities from the federal government have increasingly come not from war but from healing, an examination by Kaiser Health News and The Washington Post shows.

Health Sep 26

Your employer could be considering a health plan with no hospital benefits

Numerous large, low-wage employers are considering health plans that do not include hospital benefits.

Health Aug 11

Feds spend billions to kickstart health care innovation

A federal office you’ve probably never heard of is supposed to fix health care for everybody else.

Health Aug 04

Sorting out the mixed message given by health spending

Analysts who fear health spending is accelerating got plenty of evidence in Wall Street's second-quarter results to support their thesis. But so did folks who hope spending is still under control.

Health Aug 04

Are health care costs skyrocketing, or not? It depends on who you ask

Analysts who fear health spending is accelerating got plenty of evidence in Wall Street's second-quarter results to support their thesis. But so did folks who hope spending is still under control. Now everybody's trying to sort out the mixed message.

Health Jul 10

Will health reform shine new light on primary care physicians?

While much attention has focused on expanded coverage and online insurance bazaars, policymakers’ bigger challenge is improving Americans’ health while putting a brake on the cost of their care. The keys to that puzzle, CareFirst and many others are deciding,…

Health May 07

Employers eye moving sickest workers to insurance exchanges

Can corporations shift workers with high medical costs from the company health plan into online insurance exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act? Some employers are considering it, say benefits consultants. "It's all over the marketplace," said Todd Yates, a…

Health Apr 30

Correcting 5 misconceptions about who pays for health care in the U.S.

Full implementation of the health law, and its wider coverage, new taxes and shifting subsidies, has renewed discussions of winners and losers, makers and moochers.

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