Alan M. Schlein

Alan M. Schlein has covered Washington politics as a reporter and producer since 1982. He is the author of the best-selling “Find It Online” books and has written Washington Watch monthly for the past 25 years. Schlein runs DeadlineOnline.com, and is a consultant conducting workshops on how to use the Internet as an effective research tool.

ALAN'S ARTICLES

NEWS

• Love It or Leave It: Health Care Insurance Sign-ups Targeted at Both Fed and State Levels. (July 2013)

 

• The Medicare ‘Observation’ Muddle: Are You an Inpatient or Not? And How Much Will That Cost You? (June 2013)

 

• Budget Battles and Filling the Hardest Job in the Federal Government Both Have Increasing Impact on Seniors (May 2013)

 

• Trying to Shop Around for Medical Care? Impossible if You’re Trying to Compare Costs (April 2013)

 

• Technology Growing as One of Many Long-Term Care Options for Seniors (March 2013)

 

• Expanded Health Care Coverage Moving Along in 2013: What’s New for You? (February 2013)

 

• What Could Going over the Fiscal Cliff Mean for Seniors? (January 2013)

 

• Individual States Critical to Implementing or Blocking Health Care Reform (December 2012)

 

• Washington Roundup (November 2012)

 

• The Politics of Medicare: Separating the Facts from the Fiction (October 2012)

 

• Stark Differences Define Political Battle over Medicaid (September 2012)

 

• Healthcare Law Still Faces Obstacles (August 2012)
• Senior Issues – Drug Reimportation and Shortages, The Doughnut Hole, and Housing Relocation – Facing Mixed Results (August 2012)

 

• Medicare, Social Security Slide into Insolvency Worsened This Year (July 2012)

 

• The Budget Battles Begin: Seniors Firmly in the Crossfire (June 2012)

 

• Medicare Fraud Crackdowns (May 2012)
• Newest Repeal Effort to Health Care Reform Bill: Medicare Cuts Advisory Board (May 2012)

 

• Feds Gear Up to Wage Aggressive War on Alzheimer’s as Defining Disease of Boomers and Beyond (April 2012)
• Implementing Health Care Reform, Despite Opposition (April 2012)
• Washington on the Move: Long Term Care Program Dies, So May Some Patients Facing Drug Shortages, And the High Court Hurries Up - Or Maybe Not (April 2012)