SHORT BIO
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.
Latest Stories (640)
States await health care decision
Jun 28, 2012
As the Supreme Court prepares to decide the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, states are waiting to see if their gambles about whether the law would be overturned will pay off.
High court rules, but states' questions remain
Jun 28, 2012
The Supreme Court had the final say on upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, but conservative states aren't clamoring for newly available Medicaid money.
The health care law's legacy
Jun 25, 2012
Even if the Affordable Care Act is thrown out by the Supreme Court, some changes spurred by the law are here to stay.
It’s not just your income, it’s your assets
Jan 31, 2012
More than 40 percent of Americans are too "asset poor" to weather a job loss for three months.
IRS may have money waiting for you
Jan 27, 2012
Today is Earned Income Tax Credit Day, which highlights the benefit for low- and moderate-wage earners.
Unemployment workers speak on benefits debate
Dec 2, 2011
Job counselors say most unemployed workers are serious job searchers. If Congress doesn't extend benefits, they want more ways to counsel and train the jobless.
The jobless speak on extending their benefits
Dec 1, 2011
Some economists say long-term benefits help the unemployed avoid reality: They're never going to get the pay they used to.
Nation's food banks stretched thin
Nov 21, 2011
Food pantries and soup kitchens are seeing increased demand from the needy. At the same time, food prices are rising and charitable donations are down.
Congress could cut back on heating assistance to the poor
Oct 11, 2011
Cutting $1 billion from the heating program would leave two million households without aid.
State senator mulls competing budget priorities
May 9, 2011
New Hampshire Senate President Peter Bragdon knows popular state programs will need to be cut. The hard part is deciding which ones.