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Campaign Desk
Regulating Health Care, Part III
March 8, 2010 11:12 AMThe pols and the advocacy groups have told us for months that health reform is supposed to produce tighter regulation of insurance companies and better medical care. But corporate America has never taken kindly to any regulation that would lower... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part X
March 3, 2010 12:35 PMFour years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as a model for other states and the federal government. That law has become the blueprint for health system change on... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Cost of Living, Part III
March 1, 2010 11:20 AMContaining the runaway cost of medical care is the thorniest of all the thorny issues in the health-reform debate. There’s been tons of talk from politicians, advocates, and even health-care stakeholders about the need to reduce the nation’s rate of... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Takeaway from the Summit
February 26, 2010 03:36 PMFor weeks leading up to the president’s health care summit yesterday, the media tossed around phrases like ‘kabuki dance,’ ‘dog-and-pony show,’ and ‘political theater.’ As February 25 approached, anticipation focused on ‘changing the game,’ ‘finding common ground,’ ‘taking a stab... Continue reading
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Feature
An Rx for Reporting
February 25, 2010 02:55 PMJust before Christmas, a CNN poll asked Americans whether they favored or opposed the health-reform bills moving through Congress. Forty-two percent favored them, 56 percent were opposed. This and other polls released last fall also suggested that most Americans... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Cost of Living, Part II
February 25, 2010 11:42 AMContaining the runaway cost of medical care is the thorniest of all the thorny issues in the health-reform debate. There’s been tons of talk from politicians, advocates, and even health-care stakeholders about the need to reduce the nation’s rate of... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
CJR Holds a Town Hall Meeting
February 22, 2010 04:37 PMThe polls continue to say that roughly half of Americans don’t support health reform. A Zogby poll finds that about 51 percent of Americans oppose the Democratic version of health reform; a Quinnipiac University poll reports that 54... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Sebelius Discovers More Rate Increases
February 22, 2010 02:40 PMWe were pleased to see HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discover that high rate increases proposed by Anthem Blue Cross were not just a California phenom. A week ago Campaign Desk suggested that Sebelius, once the Kansas insurance commissioner,... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Anthem Saga Revisited
February 19, 2010 12:04 PMThe story idea seemed reasonable—a follow-up to the news that Anthem Blue Cross planned to raise rates on individual policies in California by as much as 35 percent. The first Anthem story last week was one of those Oh... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
On the Social Security Battlefront
February 17, 2010 05:11 PMFor months, Campaign Desk has observed that reporters covering health reform have used the same sources over and over. Now that the pols and some advocacy groups have resurrected Social Security as a target for political discussion, the same... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Devil in the Details, Part VI
February 15, 2010 01:59 PMEvery lobbyist swarming Capitol Hill these days knows that, when it comes to legislation, the devil is always lurking in the details, not lounging in the concepts. Yet concepts, not details, are drifting down to the public—who will be in... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Regulating Health Care, Part II
February 12, 2010 10:52 AMThe pols and the advocacy groups have told us for months that health reform is supposed to produce tighter regulation of insurance companies and better medical care. But corporate America has never taken kindly to any regulation that would lower... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Health Reform on C-SPAN
February 10, 2010 03:27 PMRepublicans waved a new flag of health reform opposition right after New Year’s, when Florida governor Charlie Crist attacked the president for health care secrecy—the same sort of attack Republicans and other opponents used on Hillary Clinton back in 1993.... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Is Health Reform Dead or Alive?
February 8, 2010 11:01 AMLast week, one Washington insider asked a Washington journalist why she had not written that health reform was dead. The journalist replied that she couldn’t do that until someone in power said so. Then she would have her story—with, of... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Cost of Living Archive
February 5, 2010 11:29 AMBelow, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “The Cost of Living” series, in descending order. 02/02/11: The Cost of Living, Part IV - Digital mammograms in the medical marketplace 03/01/10: The... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Cost of Living
February 5, 2010 09:41 AMContaining the runaway cost of medical care is the thorniest of all the thorny issues in the health-reform debate. There’s been tons of talk from politicians, advocates, and even health-care stakeholders about the need to reduce the nation’s rate of... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Reality Check at the NewsHour
February 1, 2010 10:19 AMRepublicans may have succeeded in stalling health care reform, at least for now. But that doesn’t mean the press should give them a pass when they lie about where and how the plan falls short. That’s what Judy Woodruff did... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
A Path out of the Health Care Mess?
January 28, 2010 12:14 PMAs readers of Campaign Desk know, we have long questioned the president’s leadership on health care, his number one domestic priority last year. Those questions remain relevant in 2010, especially since it appears that his domestic priority has... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
A Tale of Two Jonathans
January 28, 2010 09:21 AMJonathan Gruber is an economist from MIT. Jonathan Oberlander is a political scientist from the University of North Carolina. Both are health policy experts—and, from what we can tell, both know their stuff. But the press has counted on Gruber... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Devil in the Details, Part V
January 25, 2010 11:12 AMEvery lobbyist swarming Capitol Hill these days knows that, when it comes to legislation, the devil is always lurking in the details, not lounging in the concepts. Yet concepts, not details, are drifting down to the public—who will be in... Continue reading
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