Nearly every day for months, Lorelei Evans, a major in the U.S. Army Reserve, received a call or text from a doctor’s office trying to collect on some of her family’s $86,000 in unpaid medical bills. Almost weekly, she said, a bill showed up in the mail at her home in San Antonio, Texas. Some […]
Annie Sciacca
Annie Sciacca is a California-based journalist, most often writing about government and legal systems in the U.S. She has covered healthcare and policy for KFF Health News, child welfare systems for The Imprint, and a range of other topics for local and national publications. She worked for 10 years as a staff reporter for Bay Area newspapers, including at the East Bay Times and The Mercury News, where she covered government, criminal justice, schools, business, healthcare, and statewide breaking news. She teaches journalism and media studies at Contra Costa College in San Pablo, California.
