Wiki Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
Sarah Kliff is an award-winning healthcare journalist and a public speaker who works as the Senior Policy Correspondent at VOX. Currently, she lives in Washington, D.C.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Born to parents Barry & Tina Kliff, Sarah has a twin brother Stephen Kliff, who works at Google.
- Sarah lived with her fiancé before marrying him around early 2017. She has a baby who was born in June 2018.
- She owns a pet dog named Spencer, who is a beagle by breed.
- Kliff has graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Neuroscience & Psychology from the Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied from the year 2003 to 2007.
Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- Sarah is one of America’s top health policy journalists and has devoted many years of her career to cover the timeline of Washington’s struggle for the Affordable Care Act. Her work has been centered around Obamacare, where she has highlighted what repealing it would do to umpteen American citizens relying on it.
- One of her other big projects involves covering the emergency room billing, where she works on exposing the malpractices behind secret ER bills.
- As of 2018, Sarah works as a Senior policy correspondent at VOX, an online liberal view American news and opinion website. She joined in April 2014 in Washington.
- At Vox, she co-hosted a policy podcast The Weeds with founders Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein. She also hosts another podcast, The Impact, which talks about how policy affects the lives of people.
- Prior to her stint at VOX, Kliff was a Reporter for The Washington Post covering health policy. Here she founded “Wonkblog,” a blog that breaks down complex policies into simple comprehensible words.
- She has also worked for POLITICO & NEWSWEEK American magazines covering her field of expertise, health policy.
- As a TV personality, the healthcare expert has been seen frequently on MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, PBS Newshour, CBS, CNN and Charlie Rose. She is often a guest on radio shows like Fresh Air by NPR.
Public Speaking, Awards and Other Work :
- Sarah is a public speaker & has spoken on several health policy topics like Medical Errors, Republicans’ repeal efforts, the Affordable Care Act, and Medicare policy.
- Some of her important keynotes including addressing the Health Care Conference, Colorado, Health Institute in 2016, Health Care Forum at the California Health Care Foundation in 2017, and a presentation at the Harvard Kennedy School in March 2016, amongst others.
- As a writer, her articles have been nominated for various journalism awards. Some of her important articles include “Today’s teens are better behaved than you, and we can prove it,” “Why Obamacare Enrollees Voted for Trump,” and “Do No Harm.” One of her latest articles is “A baby was treated with a nap and a bottle of formula. His parents received an $18,000 bill.”
- Her work has gotten her various accolades like fellowships from Annenberg School of Journalism, University of Southern California and the Association of Health Care Journalists, a non-profit organization.
Interesting Facts and Trivia :
- Sarah is popular on Twitter (now called X) and has over 150,000 followers.
- On Instagram she often shares pictures of her dog.