Eric Whitney, Montana Public Radio, Author at California Healthline

Obamacare Came To Montana Indian Country And Brought Jobs

By Eric Whitney, Montana Public Radio February 13, 2017

In remote parts of Montana, the Affordable Care Act has meant better health care for Native Americans and more job opportunities.

Fix For VA Health Snarls Veterans And Doctors In New Bureaucracy

By Quil Lawrence, NPR News and Eric Whitney, Montana Public Radio and Michael Tomsic, WFAE May 16, 2016

A program that was supposed to help veterans see doctors closer to home more quickly is not fulfilling its promise.

Eric Whitney, Montana Public Radio

Eric Whitney has been a public radio reporter since 1993, mostly in Colorado, and is currently news director at Montana Public Radio. He became interested in health reporting in the late '90s, and was a media fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the summer of 2000. He served as Colorado Public Radio's health reporter for five years and spent a year filing freelance health stories from Cape Town, South Africa. His work has been supported by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the California Health Care Foundation, among others. He frequently files health stories for NPR. When not reporting, Eric enjoys nordic skiing and being outside in the mountains.

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