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1. Campaign Desk

   Covering Medicare, Part I

   April 7, 2011 04:07 PM

   Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. Without it, millions of older and disabled people would not get health care. As baby boomers age, they, too, will need... Continue reading

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   Reporting on High-Deductible Plans

   April 5, 2011 03:24 PM

   A tip of the topper to two reporters who took a good look at high-deductible health plans—the kind that can leave patients digging into their bank accounts to pay their medical bills while discouraging them from seeking care. Rachel... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   A Missing Health Policy Story

   April 4, 2011 12:29 PM

   The most underreported health story of this past week was, in my view, one that came out of the RAND Corp., the Santa Monica think tank known for its thorough, leading edge research on health policy. Before the words “health... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   Another Cozy TV-Hospital Partnership

   April 1, 2011 11:14 AM

   Once more, a large hospital system has climbed in bed with a friendly TV station to promote high-end services, using a TV health reporter as its pitchman. The St. Louis Post Dispatch tells us that Barnes-Jewish Hospital and... Continue reading

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   A New Entry in the Health Care Lexicon

   March 29, 2011 04:23 PM

   Lawrence Hunter, a contributor on Forbes.com, took on President Obama the other day, listing a number of White House initiatives that he apparently doesn’t like. The post is predictable, given Hunter’s pedigree—he once worked for conservative former New... Continue reading

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   A Shout Out to the Times’s Thomas Kaplan

   March 28, 2011 02:10 PM

   The New York Times’s man in Albany, Thomas Kaplan, is on the malpractice case—that is, the state legislature’s efforts to limit the damages for pain and suffering that injured patients can recover from a hospital or doctor who makes a... Continue reading

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   CJR Holds a Town Hall at NYU

   March 24, 2011 01:00 PM

   It is birthday week for the Affordable Care Act, the official name of the health reform law passed a year ago. Previous CJR town halls have suggested that ordinary people, millions of whom are supposed to be helped by... Continue reading

8. Campaign Desk

   Tom Friedman Declares War

   March 22, 2011 01:46 PM

   Tom Friedman was his usual glib self in Sunday’s New York Times, arguing that the two political parties “would rather focus on winning the next election and blaming the other guy than making hard choices” about energy, climate,... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   Excluded Voices: Health Care Costs

   March 18, 2011 11:31 AM

   During the health reform debate, we periodically presented Q and A interviews with health care experts whose voices were scarce. Too often journalists sought out the same organizations and the same expert sources for their stories, offering up what became... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Another Take on NPR’s “Liberal Bias”

    March 16, 2011 04:48 PM

    It was easy to understand why a story yesterday on NPR’s All Things Considered appeared to favor the Republican position on Social Security. Let’s be clear. The piece pretty much stacked the deck against those who believe that... Continue reading

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    Disaster in Japan

    March 15, 2011 02:56 PM

    Images of the devastation in northeastern Japan reminded me of the time I rode the Shinkansen—the bullet train that raced through Sendai, now torn by the earthquake, and on to the city of Morioka, where I was to learn how... Continue reading

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    Keeping an Eye on Hospital Safety, Part II

    March 10, 2011 04:14 PM

    Slowly the public is coming to realize that hospitals are not always safe places. When the Institute of Medicine published its landmark study “To Err is Human” a decade ago, pointing out the ubiquitous problem of medical errors in the... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    Romney on the Stump

    March 8, 2011 02:04 PM

    Mitt Romney has come out swinging against the health care plan he helped create, tackling the issue head on during a recent speech in New Hampshire. He seemed to be promoting a new narrative for his handiwork in... Continue reading

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    The Doctors vs. the Lawyers

    March 7, 2011 10:46 AM

    The New York Times came forth last week with an intriguing political story—but a puzzling piece of journalism. The story talked about how New York’s new governor, Andrew Cuomo, seems to have made a deal with the state’s... Continue reading

15. Campaign Desk

    A Big Omission at NBC

    March 3, 2011 12:48 PM

    NBC Nightly News took on retirement income the other day and found most Americans’s savings will come up short. The segment drew a bleak picture of the amount of money people have saved for retirement versus the amount... Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    The Return of Socialized Medicine

    February 28, 2011 02:42 PM

    Mike Huckabee, presumed presidential aspirant, is preaching the gospel of socialized medicine by attacking the Massachusetts reform law, of all things. “If our goal in health-care reform is better care at lower cost, then we should take a lesson from... Continue reading

17. Campaign Desk

    “Tweaking” Health Reform

    February 25, 2011 11:02 AM

    Lost in MSM coverage of the president’s budget and hype over a government shutdown has been reportage about the various “tweaks” to the health reform law. Kudos to Merrill Goozner of the Fiscal Times, Megan McArdle... Continue reading

18. Campaign Desk

    Pinning Down the Pols

    February 22, 2011 12:21 PM

    A few days ago, NPR’s Morning Edition brought together Sen. Saxby Chambliss, a Georgia Republican, and Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat—two members of a congressional strange bedfellows coalition examining the deficit. The topic, of course, was raising... Continue reading

19. Campaign Desk

    The Budget Narrative

    February 18, 2011 11:15 AM

    For most of last year and so far into this one, the media has passed along the narrative that Social Security is a major cause of the nation’s deficit and it, along with other entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid, needs... Continue reading

20. Campaign Desk

    Minnesota Public Radio Takes on Pawlenty

    February 14, 2011 02:22 PM

    It was good to see Minnesota Public Radio get an early start truth squading an emerging candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, former Governor Tim Pawlenty. It seems that Minnesota’s ex-gov has been promoting his health care... Continue reading

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