Dan Gorenstein

Senior Reporter

Dan Gorenstein is the former senior reporter for Marketplace’s Health Desk, covering the business of healthcare. Prior to Marketplace, Dan spent more than 11 years at New Hampshire Public Radio. He got his start in journalism at the Chicago Reporter, an investigative journal that examines race and class disparities in the Chicago area. He’s won numerous national and local awards, including the Society of Professional Journalist Sigma Delta Chi investigative reporting award.

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Feb 26, 2018
New home sales are looking up in a tight housing market
New home sale numbers are out today from the U.S. Census Bureau. In a tight housing market, strong new construction numbers could be a boost to first-time homebuyers. Click the audio player above to hear the full story.
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Feb 23, 2018
Real ID fuels demand for passports
About half of U.S. states are issuing driver licenses that comply with the Real ID Act.
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Feb 23, 2018
Kylie Jenner tweeted displeasure about Snapchat. Is that a problem?
If you’re a business that cultivates high-profile celebrity influencers, what do you do when one of them expresses displeasure to millions of followers? That’s the position Snap finds itself in after Kylie Jenner tweeted that she doesn’t open Snapchat anymore. Jenner, apparently, doesn’t much like the app’s new design, and neither do more than a […]
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Feb 15, 2018
Philadelphia makes an economic case for safe injection sites
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The facilities could save at least $2 million a year by reducing expensive ambulance rides, emergency room trips and hospital visits, the city says.
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Jan 20, 2018
Here’s why more Americans now lack health insurance
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It's a reversal from last year, according to a survey.
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Jan 16, 2018
Work requirements for Medicaid raise questions for insurers
States are crafting new Medicaid policies, now that the feds have said they can require people to work in order to qualify for coverage. That will likely mean more customer churn, people moving in and out of Medicaid programs as their employment status changes, or they learn to comply with new mandatory premiums. That means […]
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Jan 11, 2018
Ten states to seek work requirements for Medicaid recipients
The Trump administration is offering states a path to impose new work requirements for some people who get health insurance under Medicaid, the program that serves 68 million primarily low-income, elderly and disabled Americans. This is a historic shift. Never in Medicaid’s 52 years have people had to work in order to get health insurance. […]
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Jan 8, 2018
Health and Human Services head nominee differs from the former secretary in one key way
Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to hold its confirmation hearing for Alex Azar to run the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Azar is widely expected to win Senate approval, despite some misgivings over the rise of drug prices while he served as a top executive at drugmaker Eli Lilly. However, it […]
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Jan 5, 2018
There’s a sharp spike in hospitalizations this flu season
Hospitals across the country are seeing a sharp spike in the number of hospitalizations this flu season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It seems the strain of the virus that’s circulating is particularly vicious. That means higher costs for patients – and headaches for hospitals. Click the audio player above to […]
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Dec 21, 2017
Nearly 2 million children could lose health insurance if the CHIP program is not approved
If the Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP, doesn’t get reauthorized by Congress, almost 2 million children across 24 states are at risk of losing their health insurance, according to a new study from Georgetown University. With just days to go before the winter break, the stakes are high. What will happen if the […]
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