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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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Slashing incentives to prescribe expensive drugs

by Dan Gorenstein
Mar 9, 2016
A new proposal to cut Medicare drug spending costs has left doctors fuming.
Roxana Selagea, a Publix Supermarket pharmacy manager on August 7, 2007 in Miami, Florida. 
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Retail clinics aren't saving money as initially hoped

by Dan Gorenstein
Mar 7, 2016
Clinics at pharmacies and the like are treating many folks who used to forgo care.
 Gautam Gupta receives an influenza shot from Nurse Practitioner Ray Grigorio in the MinuteClinic at the CVS/pharmacy on January 6, 2014 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 
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Identifying trafficking victims is just the start of health care's challenge

by Dan Gorenstein
Mar 4, 2016
The system still needs to learn how to help people held against their will.
Dr. Hanni Stoklosa speaks with a patient. 
Courtesy: Michelle Cerulli
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West Virginia hospital deal in national spotlight

by Dan Gorenstein
Mar 4, 2016
State lawmakers are trying to preempt a federal challenge to a merger.
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This is what happened when a trafficking victim finally got the chance to run

by Dan Gorenstein
Mar 3, 2016
She had no phone, no birth certificate, no social security card and no recourse.
A hallway in Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Courtesy: Michelle Cerulli
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Health care takes on the fight against trafficking

by Dan Gorenstein
Mar 2, 2016
Doctors — like one who found a tracking chip in a woman — play a critical role.
A hallway in Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
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$3 billion worth of cancer drugs will be trashed this year

by Molly Wood and Dan Gorenstein
Mar 1, 2016
A new study from BMJ blames, in part, bad packaging.
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Bad packaging means $3b in drugs will be wasted this year

by Dan Gorenstein
Mar 1, 2016
A new report suggests drug makers are profiting from the waste.
A new report suggests drug makers are profiting from the waste.
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Report links health care mergers and higher costs

by Dan Gorenstein
Feb 25, 2016
Since 2009, the number of oncology practices affiliated with hospitals has doubled.
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Why Native Americans want a new form of dental care

by Dan Gorenstein
Feb 18, 2016
Tribes are turning to dental therapists to combat widespread tooth decay
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