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Joanne Kenen
Executive Editor, Health Care, POLITICO
Joanne Kenen is executive editor of health care at POLITICO, where since 2011 she has led an expansion of its health coverage while also contributing to the POLITICO Agenda policy magazine. Kenen covered health for Reuters on Capitol Hill for more than a decade and wrote about end of life during a Kaiser Family Foundation fellowship in 2007. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Slate, Kaiser Health News, and Health Affairs, among others. A regular panelist on KHN’s “What the Health” podcast, she has been a radio and TV commentator, a frequent speaker and moderator, and a Fellow at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.
Previously
![KHN's 'What the Health' Podcast: The Politics of Health Care (Live Taping)](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null095c6f7a-e4f8-4899-bda6-49f91444eb96/KHN_Podcast_AIH19.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C1920%2C1080&w=400)
Despite the ferocious partisanship that too often characterizes health policy discussions in the United States, temperate experts on both sides of the political aisle are thin...
![The Geography of Longevity](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null49b83a8f-1a1b-4b90-88b1-d747773a1682/48114827242_f6a488ccbf_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C1600%2C901&w=400)
Travel just seven miles from the Loop in central Chicago to the city’s West Side, and the life expectancy of residents drops by a shocking 16 years. Cross the border from Alge...
![The US Health Care Agenda: Top Journalists Explore the Issues](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullcb057699-6a28-4dd5-b32e-0b95f292752a/US-Health-Care-Agenda.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C1600%2C900&w=400)
Once again, health care is bubbling to the surface of public and policy conversations. The phrase “Medicare for All” is on everyone’s lips — in the halls of Congress, on the p...
![Beyond Opioids: Shining Light on Less Visible Prescription Drug Epidemics](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/ab5ced06-98cf-4abf-873d-ea591240bc3f/42934929652_6ef4db20e1_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=1946%2C550%2C5901%2C3315&w=400)
Opioids have attracted much of the public attention given to drug abuse in recent years, but they are far from the only pharmaceuticals that can be abused. Nora Volkow, whose...
![Health Systems of the Future](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/6bfbc4e3-ef33-4ec7-81a6-518786538aea/42249744094_cb2efbb56e_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=2008%2C1130%2C3867%2C2176&w=400)
Medical and technological breakthroughs, cultural and demographic upheaval, policy changes, and financial realities virtually guarantee that the health care system of tomorrow...
![KHN's 'What the Health' Podcast: The State of State Health (Live Taping)](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/abcc814d-dc51-4e83-94a6-951f8342b55f/42251716914_7fb6c6085f_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C3500%2C1971&w=400)
The states shoulder a significant amount of responsibility for tackling the opioid epidemic, reversing obesity trends, and reducing tobacco use within their borders. They also...
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Invalid health news comes in many flavors. Some is utterly fake and potentially dangerous: asserting links between vaccines and autism, discrediting the reality of climate cha...
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White working-class voters without a college education are most vulnerable to diseases of despair — suicide, drug overdoses, and alcohol-related liver disease — and they are a...
![Late Breaker: Health Reform Legislation to Arrive on Senate Floor](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null666b8fe9-d149-4d18-87e2-0f6c275f18da/35319397152_c625244865_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C324%2C1068%2C599&w=400)
US Senator Mitch McConnell has just announced that he will bring health reform legislation to the Senate floor for a vote next week. What is actually proposed in this bill, wh...
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The upcoming US presidential election is likely to have significant implications for health and health care. On the domestic front, the choice could influence efforts to overh...