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1. Campaign Desk

   Re-examining Massachusetts Health Care

   January 22, 2010 01:06 PM

   Wednesday on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, Richard Parker, who lectures at Harvard’s Kennedy School, talked about his son’s hockey coach, a third-generation Cambridge fireman who voted for Obama in 2008 but went for Brown this time. The fireman,... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   Health Care and the Massachusetts Senate Race

   January 19, 2010 08:46 AM

   When President Obama came to Massachusetts to rally the troops for Martha Coakley Sunday, he had little to say about health care. That was curious, considering that the White House needs Coakley to keep his filibuster-proof Senate intact... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   Who Was at the Table?

   January 15, 2010 03:47 PM

   No one can ever call the insurance lobby stupid. Last fall a pro-reform advocate was positively gleeful when she told me that the industry was finished—kaput—because it lost big-time when one of its studies didn’t pass the sniff... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   Regulating Health Care Archive

   January 15, 2010 10:48 AM

   Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “Regulating Health Care” series, in descending order. 03/08/10: Regulating Health Care, Part III - When is an insurance company too small to cover? 02/12/10: <a href=http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/regulating_health_care_part_ii.php... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   Regulating Health Care

   January 14, 2010 09:42 AM

   The 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

6. Campaign Desk

   Stumbling over the Cadillac Plan Tax

   January 11, 2010 03:54 PM

   If viewers were hungry for a little health care info yesterday from the talk shows, they wouldn’t have learned much from George Stephanopoulos’s interview with Christina Romer, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Stephanopoulos began... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   When Does a News Outlet Become a Press Agent?

   January 11, 2010 08:00 AM

   Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson has been in trouble with his constituents ever since he cast the crucial sixtieth vote to pass the Senate’s health reform bill. Apparently the water is so hot that that he has bought air time on... Continue reading

8. Campaign Desk

   Kudos to The Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette

   January 7, 2010 11:24 AM

   Before Christmas, Kate Long, the writing coach for The Charleston Gazette, contacted me about the media’s disinterest in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which is in some jeopardy as the reform bill moves toward reconciliation. As Campaign Desk has... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   Dust-up at The Washington Post

   January 4, 2010 04:05 PM

   This weekend the Internet was all a-twitter over a piece that The Washington Post ran right before New Year’s, headlined: “Support grows for tackling nation’s debt.” The story, produced by a new publication called The Fiscal Times, was... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Trudy Lieberman Entitlement Reform Archive

    January 4, 2010 03:58 PM

    This is a list of every article on the subject of entitlement reform that Trudy Lieberman has written for Campaign Desk, presented in reverse chronological order. 12/06/11: The Murky Politics of the Payroll Tax - The media begin to... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    Best of 2009: Trudy Lieberman

    January 4, 2010 02:42 PM

    1. The "Baucus Watch" series: Sixteen posts that describe the machinations, in-fighting, and political pressure on the Senate Finance Committee as its chairman fulfilled his task of delivering a bill to Harry Reid. From the suspense over “will he... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    Setting the Record Straight

    December 23, 2009 11:47 AM

    In an interview with The Washington Post yesterday, President Barack Obama rejected criticism that he had compromised too much just so he could get some health bill passed this year. The president challenged his critics to identify any... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    An Oops at USA Today

    December 22, 2009 12:25 PM

    Waiting in a train station in Bath, England, yesterday as I wondered what was happening with health reform, I spotted a copy of the international edition of USA Today dated Monday, December 21. Sure enough, there were two stories. At... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    The Devil in the Details, Part IV

    December 17, 2009 08:00 AM

    Every 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

15. Campaign Desk

    Covering Joe

    December 15, 2009 04:20 PM

    Any student of politics or any journalist who covers politics knows that members of Congress look out for their constituents, or else they may not be around after the next election. It’s really that simple. Of course, anyone can qualify... Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    A Shout-out to the Associated Press

    December 15, 2009 09:19 AM

    Back in August, Campaign Desk pointed out that President Obama’s much-ballyhooed consumer protections required the media’s critical eye as legislation moved along. Obama promised eight consumer protections, some of which consumers already had. For example, he promised that he... Continue reading

17. Campaign Desk

    The Next Most Underreported Health Reform Story

    December 14, 2009 11:57 AM

    Where are the chips falling, so to speak, when it comes to the popular State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)? The press ought to be finding out, and fast. Last week, the Children’s Defense Fund sent me an invitation for... Continue reading

18. Campaign Desk

    The Botox Beat

    December 9, 2009 11:19 AM

    First came the medical device makers and now the plastic surgeons. Both groups have a problem. You see, Congress wants to slap a tax on medical devices—things like insulin pumps and heart valves. Senate bill drafters expected the tax to... Continue reading

19. Campaign Desk

    What’s So Public about a Public Plan?

    December 8, 2009 12:28 PM

    Word comes from Politico that maybe—just maybe—the Senate is nearing a deal on the public option. You remember—that larger-than-life legislative provision that has come to represent the ideal of health reform for some and the devil incarnate for others. As... Continue reading

20. Campaign Desk

    The Most Underreported Health Reform Story

    December 7, 2009 07:00 AM

    Friday night the Senate gave grudging support to a provision in its health reform bill—the so-called CLASS Act, short for Community Living Assistance Services and Support. People concerned about their long-term care needs could voluntarily join a government plan which... Continue reading

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