- Sarah Kliff
- Reporter
Sarah Kliff covers health policy for the Washington Post. Sarah joined the Post in August 2011 from Politico, where she authored Politico Pulse, a daily health policy tipsheet. Prior to Politico, Sarah was a staff writer at Newsweek covering national politics. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic, the BBC, Humanities Magazine and St. Louis Magazine. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Kaiser Family Foundation and University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism.
- Reconciliation
- How much Obama and Ryan would spend on health care (in one graph)
- Medicare trustees: Repealing Obamacare cuts would hasten insolvency
- Obamacare won’t cut Medicare benefits. It could hit quality.
- It’s all about the budget window, baby
- How doctors could game Obamacare
- Reconciliation
- Romney’s right: Obamacare cuts Medicare by $716 billion. Here’s how.
- From archery to air fresheners, Paul Ryan’s five weirdest legislative proposals
- Paul Ryan’s solid antiabortion credentials
- Obamacare benefits are starting to roll out. Will anyone notice?
- The evolution of the uneven bars
- The true Olympics victor is…Grenada?
- Health-care spending slowdown (Choose Your Own Adventure edition)
- The difference between a high school dropout and a college degree? A decade in lifespan
- Corgis very much enjoy water parks
- Maybe that steelworker didn’t need Romneycare after all
- The Komen Foundation’s very big leadership shake-up
- A New Mexico experiment aims to fix the doctor shortage – no new doctors required
- Romneycare would cover an unemployed cancer patient. Obamacare will too.
- What it feels like to be attacked by a great white shark
- Inappropriate heart procedures are expensive and risky. And studies show thousands happen every year.
- Many cardiac procedures unnecessary, risky and costly, studies shows
- Schools’ big soda purge
- Why would hospitals like HCA perform unnecessary surgery? Because it pays.
- Study: One-third of doctors wouldn’t take new Medicaid patients last year
- The Postal Service isn’t so good at paying bills, but it’s great at delivering the mail
- Man builds real-life Wall-E robot
- Businesses think the growth of health insurance premiums is slowing. Yes, really.
- The very squishy science of counting calories
- Reconciliation
- London Olympics, Do-It-Yourself edition
- Why mustaches are good for your health
- State resistance to Obamacare: It’s pretty much politics
- How the rich and the poor, and those in between, spend money
- Meet the numbat, your new favorite Australian animal
- Is listening to music making you worse at your job?
- State budget directors see Medicaid expansion costs, but not savings
- Democrats want to cut our health-care budget. Here’s how they’ll do it.
- How to explode a watermelon using rubber bands
- How we die (in one more chart)
- Five facts about the health law’s contraceptive mandate
- Getting a space rover to Mars is insanely difficult
- A quarter of Americans expect to pay individual mandate tax
- Massachusetts aims for another health care first: A global spending cap
- Reconciliation
- Federal court upholds Arizona’s late-term abortion law
- Aly Raisman’s parents are adorable
- Romney praises health care in Israel, where research says ‘strong government influence’ has driven down costs
- The individual mandate is constitutional. But will people actually comply?
- ‘The world’s most important bake sale:’ One patient’s plan to pay for chemotherapy
- ‘The world’s most important bake sale:’ One patient’s plan to pay for chemotherapy
- A federal court ruled against the contraceptive mandate. Here’s what happens next.
- Universal coverage is not universal access
- Gold medal coverage? Not exactly.
- Reconciliation
- Meet the woman who has used (almost) every Obamacare benefit
- ‘Which one is this again?’
- America’s very big health-care bill (in one infographic)
- Sounds like nobody has a case of the Mondays
- Study: Medicaid may lower death rates
- Reconciliation
- We’re horrible at taking our medicine
- The science of roadkill
- Democrats, Republicans: Everybody cuts Medicaid
- Does medical school pay off for women?
- CBO: With Medicaid opt-outs, Affordable Care Act costs $84B less
- California pays Medicaid doctors half as much as North Dakota
- We have a whooping cough vaccine. So why is there a whooping cough outbreak?
- The cost of the Medicaid opt-outs (in one chart)
- What would Batman eat?
- The State of AIDS (in one chart)
- Reconciliation
- Study: After menu labeling, healthier restaurant offerings
- ‘Sometimes you get proper care. Sometimes you don’t. It’s kind of a coin toss.’
- The Lego Wire
- About half of doctors use electronic records
- Arizona v. Roe v. Wade
- The political forecaster’s guide to winning the Olympics
- Physical inactivity is killing us (5.3 million of us, to be exact)
- Arkansas says Medicaid expansion saves $372 million. Let’s break down those numbers.
- The cost of dropping health insurance
- The state of Medicaid (in charts!)
- Analysts: Obesity fight can turn a profit
- Could one word take down Obamacare?
- Forget states opting out. What happens to Medicaid if they opt-in?
- Zeke Emanuel teaches you everything you ever wanted to know about health policy
- Video: The science of pleasure, explained in 5 minutes
- Medical schools teach doctors how to deliver medicine. Should they teach how much it costs?
- Public hospital exec: ‘A grim menu of choices’ for Medicaid opt-outs
- In Massachusetts, an Accountable Care Organization that’s actually working
- Study: Most Medicaid patients visit the ER for urgent, not routine, care
- Reconciliation
- The state of abortion rights, in one chart
- Study: Medicaid patients aren’t using the emergency department for routine care
- 2-week-old tiger cubs are just as adorable as you’d expect
- Obama administration readies for Medicaid opt-outs
- Medicaid’s stimulative effect
- The creepiest clam you will ever see
- The economics of cigarette taxes
- Reconciliation
- Medicaid expansion poses a familiar face-off
- Six governors say they will opt out of Medicaid. How long will they hold out?
- The state of the Medicaid expansion in one map
- Why have Republicans voted 30 times to repeal Obamacare? To increase uncertainty.
- The super wonky reason states may join the Medicaid expansion
- What happens if a state opts out of the Medicaid expansion, cont’d
- The incredible shrinking public health workforce
- A jobs report silver lining: Wages are increasing
- What happens if a state opts out of Medicaid, in one chart
- The fireworks market is exploding
- Maybe we should blame teenagers for our health spending problems
- A scientific explanation of your hangover (and how to cure it)
- Why hospitals (heart) the Medicaid expansion
- Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion already covering a half-million Americans
- Americans eat the most meat
- Poll: 56% Americans want opponents of the health-care law to move on
- Crab v. Wiener dog
- The backlash begins: States start opting out of Medicaid expansion
- Everything you ever wanted to know about Canadian health care in one post
- The American Medical Association’s president-elect on the future of health care
- Supreme Court forces states to make a big Medicaid decision
- For businesses, plenty of questions remain about the health-care law
- Reconciliation
- The Affordable Care Act stands. Now, states start scrambling.
- Here’s what happens when you crack an egg open under water
- White House: Don’t expect SCOTUS to give Obamacare a popularity boost
- The Supreme Court forces states to make a big Medicaid decision. Here’s how they’ll do it.
- Stocks dip, then recover on Supreme Court’s health-care decision
- The six funniest reactions to the Supreme Court’s health-care ruling
- The Supreme Court surprise: Medicaid ruling could reduce coverage
- What the Supreme Court decision means for insurers, hospitals and drugmakers
- READ: The Supreme Court upholds the health reform law
- READ: The Supreme Court upholds the health reform law
- Obamacare survived the Supreme Court. Other challenges still ahead.
- What happens if the mandate falls (in five charts)
- $15,000 for two minutes: SCOTUSblog preps for its ‘Olympics’
- For SCOTUSblog, one goal: ‘Beat everybody’ and break news of health-care ruling
- If Obamacare falls, California groups plan a single-payer push
- A robot that always wins at rock-paper-scissors
- How will you know if Obamacare still stands tomorrow? Probably from Lyle.
- Poll: Americans think their own health care is fine, but the rest of the country’s isn’t
- Uninsured and fighting blazes: Welcome to the life of a federal firefighter
- Reconciliation
- A small turtle eats a large raspberry
- Your day (in charts)
- What’s the Supreme Court doing right now? Proofreading, mostly.
- Experts aren’t very good at predicting Supreme Court cases
- E.O. Wilson’s advice to young scientists
- The Supreme Court will rule Thursday
- Everything you need to know about Obamacare and SCOTUS in one post
- Poll: Legal scholars think the mandate is valid, will fall anyway
- Waiting for Supreme Court health-care decision: A news release for every outcome
- Aetna and Inova unveil joint venture for improved, cost-effective health care
- Aetna CEO: The Supreme Court decision doesn’t matter. The deficit does.
- How we die (in one chart)
- The waiting game: Health advocates are writing lots of press releases
- Make way for duckling
- The optimist’s guide to repealing the individual mandate
- Health insurance plans owe $1.1 billion in rebates
- Reconciliation
- The Baratheon birthers
- Rick Scott’s post-SCOTUS Obamacare plan
- Poll: Former Supreme Court clerks think the mandate is done for
- Poll: Former Supreme Court clerks think the mandate is done for
- Study: Proximity to healthy foods doesn’t matter. Price does.
- Study: Proximity to healthy foods doesn’t matter. Price does.
- We love charts!
- We love charts! #lunchbreak
- Want to live longer? Move to New York
- Want to live longer? Move to New York
- Health reform with a mandate: the Massachusetts story
- Health reform: Is money enough?
- Health reform without a mandate: Lessons from Washington state
- Washington state provides case study on effects of heath-care reform
- Reconciliation
- Lazy (Arctic) Sunday #lunchbreak
- Doctors are using electronic records more - but liking them less
- Maybe health-care growth is really slowing
- Reconciliation
- Meet Dr. Watson
- Does Aetna love Obamacare or hate it?
- So you want to measure the size of the universe #lunchbreak
- Americans actually really like broccoli
- The economics of bank robbery
- Socks, Bo and the politics of presidential pets
- ‘Next on Mad Men’ Supercut #lunchbreak
- Why did Kansas have so many abortions in 2008?
- Health-care costs: Will they stay or will they grow?
- Why one health insurer won’t extend Obamacare’s benefits
- A 14-month effort to answer one question: Can shopping for insurance be easy?
- The ‘Young Invincibles’ are not, in fact, invincible
- The Manhattan Project #lunchbreak
- How America spends on groceries
- Obamacare is here to stay
- The $900,000 corner store experiment: Federal dollars have poured into Philadelphia to improve access to more nutritious fare, but will it sell? ’
- Will Philadelphia’s experiment in eradicating ‘food deserts’ work?
- States join to create tools for implementing Affordable Care Act
- Is Seattle coming for your Big Gulps next?
- The study that surprised Atul Gawande
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