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Phil Galewitz
KHN Senior Correspondent
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Phil Galewitz, KHN senior correspondent, covers Medicaid, Medicare, long-term care, hospitals and various state health issues. He has covered the health beat for more than two decades. He is a former board member of the Association of Health Care Journalists. In 2004/05, he was a Kaiser Media Fellow and wrote about community solutions to the uninsured. Before coming to KHN, he was at The Palm Beach Post and was a national health industry writer for the Associated Press and The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa. He has a BA in health planning and administration and a master’s in public administration with an emphasis in health policy from Penn State University.
Areas of Expertise
Latest Fact-Checks by Phil Galewitz
- Florida Sen. Rick Scott off-base in claim that Medicare premiums are rising due to inflation November 23, 2021
- Ron DeSantis advances questionable link between lockdowns and despair February 23, 2021
- Graham says N.Y., Calif. and Mass. get over a third of ACA money. The latest data say they don’t. October 28, 2020
- Fact-check: Ron DeSantis says COVID-19 is a lower risk for school-aged kids than flu August 20, 2020
- Trump’s Medicaid Chief Labels Medicaid ‘Mediocre.’ Is It? February 20, 2020
Latest Stories by Phil Galewitz
- Fact-check: Is replacing Joe Biden on the ticket ‘unlawful’? Election law experts say it’s not July 22, 2024
- United Facts of America: Experts say facts alone won’t bridge the partisan divide September 27, 2022
- Would Tom Hanks have qualified for a coronavirus test in the US? March 12, 2020
- Fact-checking Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address February 5, 2020
- What we know about Shadow, Acronym and the Iowa caucuses February 4, 2020
- A new look for the PolitiFact website February 2, 2020
- PolitiFact answers the Senate’s impeachment questions January 31, 2020
- As pandemic-era provisions lapse, millions of Americans to lose Medicaid February 2, 2023
- What patients can learn with confidence from 1 rapid test (hint: very little) January 14, 2022