‘Ask Emily’ Columnist Emily Bazar

Prefers Woody Guthrie to Physics

Emily Bazar is a healthcare reporter who writes “Ask Emily,” a bi-weekly column supported by the California Healthcare Foundation that runs in more than 25 newspapers and NPR affiliate websites across California, answering questions about how Obamacare’s giant healthcare overhaul works. Before moderating a panel on whether on whether or not Obamacare gives Sacramento more healthcare choices, she sat down in the Zócalo green room to talk about reporting on the Affordable Care Act, why you won’t find her writing in a coffee shop, and her love of …

February 10, 2015

How Obamacare Is Changing the ER

Our Hospital Emergency Room Sees 400 Uninsured Patients Each Month. My Job Is to Get Them Covered.

by Araceli Martinez | December 31, 2014

Every month, nearly 400 people without health insurance visit the emergency department of the San Jose hospital where I work. Some of them come in after an accident. Others have …

If You Want to Make Sense of Obamacare, Go to San Diego

America's Finest City Just Might Offer the Country's Finest Chance at Successful Health Reform

by Joe Mathews | December 11, 2014

Will San Diego have America’s finest Obamacare?

Yes, it’s way too early for any verdicts about the Affordable Care Act and its implementation, even in California, which has embraced this messy …

The Inland Empire Will Do Just About Anything to Insure You

In a Massive, Highly Diverse Region, Getting People Healthcare Means Getting Creative

by Sarah Rothbard | December 9, 2014

If you build it, they won’t come. So you’ve got to go to them. This was the big takeaway from the first year of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in …

Dances with Obamacare

A Year of Major Illnesses and Expenses Has Our Family Playing a Game of Musical Chairs with Changing Doctors and Health Plans

by Catherine Keefe | December 8, 2014

At the exact moment President-elect Barack Obama proclaimed that “change has come to America,” I stood at the foot of my husband’s bed in the cardiac ICU of Mission Hospital …

Is There Anything Exciting About Buying Health Insurance?

Convincing the Uninsured to Sign Up for Obamacare Isn't an Easy Task, But Someone's Got to Do It

December 5, 2014

When Obamacare’s second open enrollment period started in November, leaders of Covered California (the state’s insurance marketplace) got on the road, spreading the word about health insurance options campaign-style: on …

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