Polk Award Winners: Daniel Chang

Published: April 28, 2022, 4:35 p.m.

b'Daniel Chang covers health care for the\\xa0Miami Herald. Along with Carol Marbin Miller, he won the George Polk Award for\\xa0"Birth & Betrayal,"\\xa0a series co-published with\\xa0ProPublica\\xa0that exposed the consequences of a 1988 law designed to shelter medical providers from lawsuits by funding lifelong care for children severely disabled by birth-related brain injuries.\\n\\u201cI think that someone on the healthcare beat looks for stories from the perspective of patients, people who want or need to access the healthcare system and for different reasons cannot. It\\u2019s a pretty complicated system and it\\u2019s difficult for most people to understand how their health insurance works \\u2014 and that\\u2019s if they have health insurance. If they don\\u2019t, there is a whole other system they have to go through. What you look for is access issues and accountability for that.\\u201d\\nThis is the latest in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year\'s\\xa0George Polk Awards in Journalism.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'