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1. Campaign Desk

   Social Security in the Heartland: Jennifer Putman

   October 25, 2010 01:17 PM

   This is the fifth of a series of posts that discuss how possible changes in Social Security will affect the residents of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. The entire series is archived here. “I am so ready to be a drawer on... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   Health Care and the Massachusetts Governor’s Race

   October 20, 2010 11:54 AM

   Through the long reform debate, health care and Massachusetts went together like love and marriage—or so the media told us. But everything wasn’t lovey-dovey in the Bay State, as Campaign Desk repeatedly pointed out. Cracks were evident, and the... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   CBS Story Short but Not So Sweet

   October 18, 2010 11:37 AM

   I am not quite sure what point CBS Evening News had in mind a few days ago when it aired a segment about raising the retirement age for full Social Security benefits. Maybe the show’s producer had heard... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   A Laurel to the Seattle Times

   October 14, 2010 09:31 AM

   We’ve become accustomed to newspaper exposes of nursing homes. But other places that house the frail elderly are another matter. These “other” places are growing in importance, even though the care they provide may be questionable, if not downright harmful.... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   Another CJR Town Hall in the Badger State

   October 11, 2010 11:45 AM

   Can I talk to you about health reform, I asked twenty-eight-year-old Michelle Zywicki, who was working at a computer in the Waukesha public library. She and her husband have so little income that they can’t afford the cable charges for... Continue reading

6. Campaign Desk

   Unintended Consequence Number 38

   October 5, 2010 02:26 PM

   Over at Kaiser Health News, staff writer Julie Appleby produced an illuminating story about ongoing consolidation among hospitals and physician groups, an unintended consequence of the country’s last attempt to contain medical costs—the push to managed care in... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   Unintended Consequences

   October 5, 2010 02:20 PM

   During the health reform debate, the Obama administration stuck to its mantra—the law would bring competition to health care, which would in turn lower the price of health insurance. Last week, a couple of articles indicated that the opposite may... Continue reading

8. Campaign Desk

   A CJR Town Hall in the Badger State

   October 1, 2010 01:04 PM

   In this land of beer, brats, and the Packers, it is the autumn of discontent. Anger, distrust, apprehension, disaffection—these are some threads I pulled out of my recent man-on-the-street chats in Wisconsin. People were eager to talk politics, and the... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   Social Security in the Heartland: Laurie Cooper

   September 29, 2010 12:38 PM

   Before the year ends, the president’s deficit commission will bring forth a plan for cutting the deficit. While commission co-chairs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles have announced that everything that costs the government money is on the table—wars, hunger programs,... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Distrust and Health Reform

    September 27, 2010 08:00 AM

    A fine piece last Wednesday by Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown dissects what political prognosticators from Bill Clinton to Obama pollster Joel Berenson had predicted about the ultimate acceptance of health reform legislation. “Rarely have so many political strategists... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    Tracking the Tea Parties

    September 23, 2010 11:56 AM

    Thumbs up to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for a bright, engaging piece about the Tea Party movement in Wisconsin. The piece, by Bill Glauber, began with a intriguing scene setter that placed the Tea Partiers in Milwaukee on... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    CJR Holds a Town Meeting

    September 16, 2010 09:06 AM

    A year ago last August, I visited the college town of Columbia, Missouri, and did man-on-the-street interviews with small business owners, college students, and people getting care at a community clinic. I went back to Columbia a few weeks ago... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    A Rate Increase for James Windus

    September 14, 2010 09:40 AM

    James Windus, a New York City personal trainer, got a nasty letter a few weeks ago from his insurance carrier, Emblem Health, a relatively new carrier formed a few years back through the merger of respected New York insurers GHI... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    Sebelius Watch, Part V

    September 14, 2010 09:34 AM

    Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has emerged as the person to watch as the Obama administration scrambles to implement health reform. The health care czarina’s words and silences offer clues about the way health reform will play out... Continue reading

15. Campaign Desk

    Another Curious Omission

    September 10, 2010 10:09 AM

    Edmund Andrews, a senior writer for The Fiscal Times, has given us an interesting story about the 800-pound gorilla of Washington politics—the AARP. The online news service, which produces stories about fiscal policy, is funded by Peter G.... Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    Some Curious Omissions

    September 8, 2010 09:51 AM

    A recent New Yorker piece tells us a lot about the behind-the-scenes politics and ideology driving much of the public discussion during this election season. It’s worth a read for anyone craving more depth than they get from... Continue reading

17. Campaign Desk

    Keeping an Eye on Hospital Safety

    September 2, 2010 03:52 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

18. Campaign Desk

    Hospital Safety Series

    September 2, 2010 03:36 PM

    Here are the links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman's "Keeping an Eye on Hospital Safety" series, presented in descending order. 09/23/11: Keeping an Eye on Patient Safety, Part IV - Sac Bee catches nursing home lies 07/06/11: <a... Continue reading

19. Campaign Desk

    Social Security in the Heartland: Ronald Eaker

    September 1, 2010 10:07 AM

    Before the year ends, the president’s deficit commission will bring forth a plan for cutting the deficit. While commission co-chairs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles have announced that everything that costs the government money is on the table—wars, hunger programs,... Continue reading

20. Campaign Desk

    Alan Simpson Does it Again

    August 26, 2010 02:22 PM

    Alan Simpson, the co-chair of the president’s deficit commission, came up with another doozy Monday when he told Ashley Carson, the director of the Older Women’s League and a strong supporter of Social Security, that “if you have some better... Continue reading

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