- 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.
- Massachusetts promises to rein in health-care costs. Experts question whether it can deliver.
- New Yorkers drink seven times as much coffee as the rest of us
- Many doctors think PSA tests don’t work. But they’ll keep doing them anyway.
- Study: One in 10 veterans lack health insurance
- A shark attack probably won’t kill you, and other lessons from the science of the beach
- Healthy food is cheaper — at least by weight.
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mass. wants you to decide whether to pay $50 or $500 for an MRI
- A fast food soda is six times bigger than it was 60 years ago
- The health insurance plans, they are a-changing
- How can Obamacare succeed? Romneycare offers a few clues.
- Fewer Americans identify as pro-choice, but support for abortion rights isn’t dropping
- The contraceptives lawsuits, explained
- How patients judge what makes ‘excellent’ health care
- Jon Gruber on Obamacare, premium support and health policy dreams
- What could revolutionize health care? This database.
- An interview with a late term abortion provider
- Kathleen Sebelius’s speech: contraceptives controversy still swirls around it
- Hey girl, we’re in a Ryan Gosling bubble
- What a late-term abortion ban would mean for D.C.
- Republicans’ repeal riddle
- Congress edging closer to passing a very important health policy
- Lunch break: Ken Burns on how to tell a great story
- No, drinking coffee probably won’t make you live longer
- Reconciliation
- Obamacare has 99 problems - but a Republican governor isn’t one
- 50 years of government spending, in one graph
- Most of us think we make good doctors
- Obamacare repeal would cost insurers $1 trillion
- Lunch break: Where good ideas come from
- Gay marriage is a health-care issue, too
- Carlyle Group profits down 30 percent in first quarter
- The politics of...baby names
- Lunch break: ‘The politics of competitive board gaming amongst friends’
- Is grief a disease?
- Health insurance expansion looming, primary care turf battle heats up
- Nurse practitioners look to fill gap with expected spike in demand for health services
- Interview: What Nancy Keenan’s resignation means to pro-choice activists
- Lunch break: ‘Thank you mom’
- Republicans governors vs. Obamacare
- Exclusive: NARAL President Nancy Keenan to step down
- McAllen, Tex. has expensive health care — and lots of company
- The emergency room is not health insurance
- Lunch break: The secret dreams of an office toy
- Massachusetts wants to cut $150 billion in health costs. Can it succeed?
- Have ballot initiatives undermined gay marriage?
- Did Obamacare create a new doc-fix?
- Lunch break: Baby otter rescue mission
- Have California schools cracked the code on obesity?
- Under Obama administration, abstinence-only education finds surprising new foothold
- Lunch break: Maurice Sendak on his work
- Health insurers need to stop being wimps, study finds
- Reconciliation
- High uninsured rates can kill you — even if you have coverage
- Lunch Break: ‘The Fresh Prince of Downton Abbey’
- A four-page FDA proposal could revamp relationships with doctors
- Medicaid costs are growing ... slowly?
- Reconciliation
- Mo’ doctors, mo’ money, mo’ problems?
- Lunch break: Baby sea lion learns to swim
- White House makes $1.9 billion bet: Oregon can fix health care
- How to save $705 billion in health costs: Be like the Netherlands
- College students don’t want to be lawyers — but do want to be doctors
- Reconciliation
- ‘Doctors want to cure’ patients, not tell them they’re dying
- Study: More heart surgery centers mean more unnecessary heart surgery
- Lunch break: A real life Robinson Crusoe
- Employers save $422 billion if they dump health coverage. Will they?
- Lunch break: The West Wing reunites for a final ‘walk and talk’
- In childhood obesity, a growing socioeconomic gap
- One surefire way to enlist organ donors (that doesn’t involve Facebook)
- Is comparison shopping the future of health care? Silicon Valley says yes.
- Massachusetts payment-reform bill would overhaul how health-care providers are paid
- Massachusetts changed how we provide health care. Now it wants to change how we pay for it.
- What health wonks can learn from Doggycare
- Reconciliation
- Meet Kate Bicego, the woman who knows how to implement Obamacare
- Health care economist Amy Finkelstein wins the Clark Award
- Lunch break: The world’s fastest everything
- How the Prevention Fund is being spent
- Why trust in doctors is at an all-time high
- Insurers are spending more of our dollars on actual health care
- Out of control Medicare spending? Maybe not.
- What tonsillectomies tell us about the future of health care
- Would you buy health insurance in a store?
- Study: Fewer employers are offering health insurance
- Lunch break: A frog sitting like a human
- How much does an appendectomy cost? Somewhere between $1,529 and $186,955
- A nugget of good Medicare news
- Lunch break: Napoleon wasn’t short
- Why mom keeps calling, explained!
- Reports of Medicare’s death are greatly exaggerated
- Want to cut health care costs? Start here.
- Lunch break: Atul Gawande on how to heal medicine
- The all-knowing insurance company
- Why we forget about Martin Van Buren
- How WebMD convinces us we’re dying
- Should Warren Buffett’s cancer get treated?
- Do food deserts matter? Do they even exist?
- Lunch break: Cats in space
- PDUFA: The most important health policy you haven’t heard of
- Reconciliation
- The real story on shipwrecks: Women and children last
- Few blame taxes for their financial woes
- Best way to pick legislators? At random.
- Interview: How Planned Parenthood lost its ‘political Teflon’
- Lunch break: A corgi gets vacuumed
- A (small) cookie a day keeps the doctor away
- Report: Romneycare no ‘budget buster’
- Two years in the life of a Texas Planned Parenthood: ‘We’re figuring this out as we go.’
- Why women weather recessions better than men
- Komen grants flowing to Planned Parenthood
- Reconciliation
- Where Obamacare dollars are going, in one map
- CHARTS: Six ways Romneycare changed Massachusetts
- Reconciliation
- ‘I thought, why not pair risk adjustment with Samuel L. Jackson’
- The science of memorable movie quotes
- ACOmentum?
- America’s teen birth rate is at a new low -- and still 10 times higher than Switzerland’s
- ‘I always had to call an ambulance to get up.’
- ‘We should be better judges of when things are futile.’
- Can Obama reclaim ‘Obamacare?’
- Computer science confirms: Super Mario Brothers is hard to beat
- Why the IRS gets half of health reform’s implementation dollars
- Why Britain has 17,000 pregnant men
- Reconciliation
- Kagan on how the Supreme Court decides
- Lunch Break: A baby otter, being adorable
- Where America needs doctors, in one map
- Why no one is celebrating an unemployment-rate drop
- Building better doctors
- Would ruling against Obamacare be ‘unprecedented’?
- Analyst: Health reform law repeal a net-negative for hospitals
- Lunch break: How to eliminate the penny
- This health care debate will be tweeted
- How the social safety net works
- Reconciliation
- Paul Ryan Gosling
- What happens if the individual mandate falls
- Forty-five procedures doctors don’t think doctors should do
- Lunch break: Twitter circa 1980
- Dartmouth Atlas’s Skinner on high-cost hospitals
- The cost of cancer care
- Lunch break: Tina Fey’s zombie apocalpyse survival plan
- ‘Employees here waited eight long years for deliverance that didn’t come.’
- Patching our primary care system
- Reconciliation
- Breakfast, the most important (fundraising) meal of the day
- The case against killing the penny
- When more expensive medicine is better medicine
- How Obamacare got to the Supreme Court
- Reconciliation
- How Wall Street feels about Obamacare’s future
- Lunch break: The Peep Show
- What’s happening, right now, in the Supreme Court
- Waiting 92 hours to hear health care oral arguments: A first-person view
- Abortion restrictions are dying in state legislatures
- Predicting the Obamacare decision, cont’d
- Sen. Whitehouse on changing the way doctors get paid
- ‘Eat it, don’t tweet it’
- Supreme Court and Obamacare: What happens next
- ‘Obamacare’ takes off, in one chart
- Neal Katyal on defending Obamacare
- Obamacare ruling won’t affect Romneycare
- Severability showdown: Justices grapple with law’s viability without a mandate
- Study: On oral arguments, odds may be in White House’s favor
- Health reform supporters dominate Supreme Court steps
- In mandate hearing, a battle over ‘limiting principle’
- Individual mandate 101: What it is, why it matters
- Worlds apart on Obamacare, next to each other in Supreme Court line
- Supreme Court likely to move forward on health-care ruling
- ‘We’re sleeping between the Capitol and the Supreme Court. We’re really at ground zero.’
- SCOTUS 101: A Wonkblog guide to health care oral arguments
- Conversations: Don Berwick looks ahead on health care
- Supreme Court and the business of waiting in line
- Health reform at 2: Why American health care will never be the same
- To hear health care oral arguments, a three day camp-out
- What happens if the individual mandate falls, in one chart
- Don Berwick: ‘It’s game time’ on health reform
- Lunch break: Jim Yong Kim, a World Bank nominee who can rap
- Komen board chair steps down, citing Howard University duties
- Health care overhaul’s future depends on ‘wheat, pot, guns’
- Forty-nine states are actively implementing ‘Obamacare’
- Komen foundation continues to see fallout from Planned Parenthood controversy
- On the health care act, a view from Utah
- Lunch break: Puppy vs. coat
- One way to cut health care costs: Cut medical training
- Battling the popcorn lobby
- What Paul Ryan learned from Obamacare
- Lunch Break: A time-lapsed thunderstorm
- Doc, what would you do if you were me?
- Reconciliation
- The politics of ‘Obamacareapolooza’
- Government funding for family planning is growing fast
- Lunch break: The sleeper car
- The Supreme Court’s health care challenge, in one chart
- Massachusetts digs in on health-care cost control
- Key economic events for the week of March 19
- Don Berwick on cutting health-care costs
- Another hurdle for health reform’s contraceptives mandate
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