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Dan Gorenstein

Senior Reporter

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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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A push for more transparency in drug research costs

by Dan Gorenstein
Feb 16, 2016
The industry worries it's a step toward price controls.
Drug companies are not only in the spotlight for price setting, but now they may be required to be transparent about R&D spending. 
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Companies team up to get better value in health care

by Dan Gorenstein
Feb 5, 2016
Twenty firms will share data on how much they're paying for care for workers.
Twenty major companies will be coming together to discuss healthcare costs. 
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How more generics could relieve sky-high drug prices

by Dan Gorenstein
Feb 4, 2016
More generics are needed to create competition — but can the FDA approve them fast enough?
With high drug prices, more generics are needed to create competition, but can the FDA is having a hard time keeping up.
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Developing a Zika vaccine will take time (and money)

by Dan Gorenstein
Feb 1, 2016
A handful of big drug companies are working on one.
Mother Nadja Cristina Gomes Bezerra displays a photograph she had taken for identification of her daughter Alice Vitoria Gomes Bezerra, 3-months-old, who has microcephaly, on January 31, 2016 in Recife, Brazil. In the last four months, authorities have recorded close to 4,000 cases in Brazil in which the mosquito-borne Zika virus may have led to microcephaly in infants.
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As ACA deadline approaches, fines loom

by Dan Gorenstein
Jan 28, 2016
But will they motivate people to buy health insurance?
A person walks into the UniVista Insurance company office where people are signing up for health care plans under the Affordable Care Act.
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Government further relaxes Cuba trade rules

by Dan Gorenstein
Jan 27, 2016
Companies will henceforth be able to extend credit to more customers in Cuba.
A Cuban flag flutters in front of the US Embassy in Havana.
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Congress turns its attention to high drug prices

by Dan Gorenstein
Jan 21, 2016
This may actually lower drug costs.
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The New Math of Health Care

How doctors die

by Dan Gorenstein
Jan 19, 2016
In facing death, and making preparations for it, doctors are showing the way for others.
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Hospitals race to be included in 'narrow networks'

by Dan Gorenstein
Jan 18, 2016
Open enrollment closes at the end of the month.
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Playing out the impact of more children being insured

by Dan Gorenstein
Jan 15, 2016
Getting kids — even healthy ones — onto Medicaid improves education rates.
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