Expertise
Healthcare costs, coverage, access, and affordabilityEducation
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GoodRx personal finance spokesperson
Pulitzer Prize finalist
Former board member of the National Association of Black Journalists
Debt, ‘more month than money,’ and medical bills can cause stress — all of which affects your health. A prescription you can’t afford is medication you won’t take. That’s why I love what I do at GoodRx on multiple platforms. I help people understand costs and coverage so that they can access and afford the healthcare they need.
— Cindy George
Experience
Cindy George, MPH, is the senior personal finance editor at GoodRx. She is an endlessly curious health journalist and digital storyteller.
Her focus on consumer health content began during the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. At that time, she was a reporter in Houston. She asked: What would access to care mean for millions of uninsured Texans and the business of healthcare? How do I tell those stories? How do I help people navigate the healthcare system? Those questions have defined her work ever since.
Later, Cindy was among the Houston Chronicle contributors to the entry honored as a 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist for breaking news reporting for coverage of Hurricane Harvey.
Before GoodRx, she was assistant editor of the Texas Medical Center’s magazine and online news operation.
She has also advocated for media diversity, equity, and inclusion as a former board member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and served as chair of the NABJ Media Institute. She moderated a health equity discussion in 2019 at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
As an interviewer and speaker, she has appeared on multiple media platforms, from C-SPAN and BBC Radio to local TV news stations.
Her work as a freelance journalist has appeared in EBONY, RICE Magazine, and the NAACP’s The Crisis magazine. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated.
Education
Cindy holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications and a master’s degree in public health from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health.
