Wondering how you'll keep up with health policy news now
that my newsletter is ending? Below I
outline some of what I do to keep up.
Through a combination of email subscriptions, checking
websites and following twitter feeds I manage to stay abreast of current
events.
Email subscriptions
Here are some of my email subscriptions, and yes, I know, it’s
a lot. You will probably be more than satisfied
with just the first two – the National Journal Health Care Edge email and the
Kaiser First Edition, both sent by 8 AM. The Kaiser Morning Briefing is a much
longer version from Kaiser that comes out later in the morning (interesting but
sometimes overwhelming). If you have a budget, the third one to add is Modern
Healthcare (you can get the email for free but you can only click through on a
limited number of items a month without a subscription). Wonkblog from the
Washington Post and The New Republic email cover much more than healthcare although
I enjoy them both.
National Journal:
Health Care Edge email (http://www.nationaljournal.com/health-care
-subscription signup on right side)
Kaiser Health News:
First Edition (early morning newsletter), KHN Morning Briefing (everything you
wanted to know about for the day and more), additional options to subscribe to (http://kaiserhealthnews.org/email-signup/)
Modern Healthcare:
(http://www.modernhealthcare.com/)
This is the industry site I pay for; broad perspective, very useful. You get a
few articles free a month but then hit the paywall. I get an email every
morning with highlights of their broad industry coverage.
Wonkblog: (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/
email signup on right hand side) More than health care, not quite the same
since Ezra and Sarah went to Vox, but I still find it useful
The New Republic
(http://www.newrepublic.com/ email
signup on bottom of home page) Again, more than health care but I enjoy it
Websites
We all have our own favorites, here are some of mine:
Vox (http://www.vox.com/) – Ezra Klein left the
Washington Post to help create this site – very interesting coverage overall
and with Sara Kliff leading the health care reporting, you can’t go wrong.
NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/) – Of course this
makes the list. For those not familiar take a look at “The Upshot” section for
data driven reporting.
Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/) – Always
good nonpartisan broad coverage. Here’s a hint for my Maine readers, if you
have a subscription to the Press Herald, you get a free subscription to the
online edition of the Washington Post.
The Incidental
Economist (http://theincidentaleconomist.com/)
– Some of the most interesting health care information around.
Health Affairs (http://healthaffairs.org/) – You need a
subscription for most articles, but not for the blogs – also you can subscribe
to receive an email when a new blog is published (http://healthaffairs.org/blog/). My
regular emails will know the esteem I hold Tim Jost, subscribing to the Health
Affairs blog is the best way to keep up with some of his writings.
Kaiser Family
Foundation (http://kff.org/ - separate from
Kaiser Health News) and the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation (http://www.rwjf.org/)
are two national organizations worth keeping up with.
Twitter
Twitter is not for everyone, but if you’re on it anyway,
here are some people to consider following (in alphabetical order to avoid
offending anyone):
Dan Diamond @ddiamond
(Forbes)
Ezra Klein @ezraklein
(Vox)
Incidental Economist @IncidentalEcon
(my favorite blog including posts by Austin Frakt, Aaron Carroll and others)
Jason Millman @JasonMillman
(Washington Post)
Jeffrey Young @JeffYoung
(Huffington Post)
Larry Levitt @larry_levitt
(Kaiser)
Margot Sanger-Katz @sangerkatz
(NY Times)
Sam Baker @sam_baker
(National Journal)
Sarah Kliff @sarahkliff
(Vox)
I hope you find this list helpful. What do you think I’m missing? Let me know in the comments.
