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1. Campaign Desk

   Teaching vs. Preaching

   February 27, 2008 04:19 PM

   The topic of health-care reform in the presidential campaign thus far has been notable for the brevity of the discussion about it—the sound bites that have created the impression that the sum of the debate facing the nation is whether... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   Accuracy in Truth Squading

   February 25, 2008 01:00 PM

   Truth squading is catching on. All over the country media outlets have latched onto truth squad features, which examine the political ads and reveal what’s wrong with them. Audiences love them, and why not? What’s better than your local paper... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   The Definition of Universal, Again

   February 20, 2008 10:29 AM

   Ted Kennedy should know better. After all, he has spent a good part of his Senate career fighting for national health insurance and losing at every turn. He should know how difficult it will be to craft a truly universal... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   Impressive Coverage at the LA Times

   February 20, 2008 09:39 AM

   A shout-out to Los Angeles Times staff writer Lisa Girion who has done great journalism exposing the flaws in the private insurance market. Her work is important since insurance companies are very likely to have the upper hand in any... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   Obama’s Lobbyist Line

   February 15, 2008 09:00 AM

   Saturday night at a Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Richmond, Virginia, Barack Obama did it again. He said he hadn’t taken money from lobbyists. The election, he said, was boiling down to “a choice between debating John McCain about lobbying... Continue reading

6. Campaign Desk

   A Cautionary Tale for David Brooks and Others

   February 8, 2008 11:14 AM

   Now comes New York Times columnist David Brooks damning Hillary Clinton with faint praise. In his Tuesday column, Brooks says he’s no “Hillary-hater” and even calls her an “outstanding senator.” Then Brooks lets loose his canon fire, writing that,... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   Harry and Louise Redux?

   February 4, 2008 04:26 PM

   Barack Obama has taken on Hillary Clinton’s health care plan front and center. His new mailer attacking her proposal resurrects the ghosts of Harry and Louise, the infamous pair in TV commercials sponsored by the insurance industry, which helped sink... Continue reading

8. Campaign Desk

   Tax Credits Explained…Finally

   February 1, 2008 10:16 AM

   Tip of the hat to The Salt Lake Tribune for the health care story it ran this week about the uninsured. The piece began like most such stories do—with an anecdote. This one was about Tammy Morgan, the widow... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   A Guide That Isn’t

   January 30, 2008 10:00 AM

   Readers of the San Francisco Chronicle can be forgiven if they came away totally confused by the paper’s attempt on Sunday to enlighten them with its 2008 Voters Guide, “The Road to the Presidency, Health Care: Insurance Funding.” The... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Mitt’s Health Plan, Debunked

    January 23, 2008 11:10 AM

    Mitt Romney’s win in a couple of primaries gives the media another chance to look seriously at his Massachusetts health plan. Romney continues to trot out his health care bona fides every chance he gets, even at his victory celebration... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    Health Care: Passing Along the Confusion

    January 21, 2008 10:00 AM

    It was one of those stories—“Heath Care is a Big Concern for Nevada”—that made clear that Nevada voters care about that subject. Got it. What I didn’t get was what exactly was bothering them. The New York Times interviewed... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    Moving the boundaries

    January 18, 2008 04:00 PM

    A tip of the hat to the Sunday News, a division of Lancaster Newspapers Inc., which gave a wider view of the options for health care reform than voters in most of the nation have gotten so far. The 100,000-circulation... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    Health Care: Who Will Be at the Table?

    January 14, 2008 01:19 PM

    Barack Obama has made a big deal about who will be at his table when the time comes to craft health care legislation. His politics of inclusion embraces everyone, it seems, and as he has said in Iowa and beyond,... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    Medicare Mystery

    January 2, 2008 02:03 PM

    Of the millions of words written and spoken about U.S. health care, only a tiny percentage have been about Medicare. So far, stump speeches and media coverage boil down, on the Democratic side, to whose health proposal covers more people,... Continue reading

15. Campaign Desk

    Deception in Des Moines

    December 19, 2007 09:58 AM

    On Saturday The Des Moines Register weighed in with one of its Media Watch features, which critiques political ads and other political claims. Unfortunately, this one raised some questions about the Register’s own ability to shoot straight. The subject... Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    Huckabee on Health

    December 12, 2007 09:58 AM

    Candidate Mike Huckabee walked into the Oscar Frazier Community Center in Bluffton, South Carolina, the other day and charmed a crowd of AARP members with his easy manner and string of jokes emblematic of his campaign. When the talk turned... Continue reading

17. Campaign Desk

    A Health Care Mirage

    December 7, 2007 10:14 AM

    By now we all know that the Democratic candidates are fighting about whose plan is more universal. Their sparring in Iowa over whose plan is best has the ring of grade schoolers arguing on the playground about who has the... Continue reading

18. Campaign Desk

    Romney Talks Tough on Health Care

    November 27, 2007 10:30 AM

    Mitt Romney is talking tough these days about health care and touts his Massachusetts plan as a national model. His words are classic spin, baffling even the health-care cognoscenti, and average voters have few clues about the meaning of much... Continue reading

19. Q and A

    The New Health-Care Debate

    November 27, 2007 09:00 AM

    A 2005 survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that twice as many people rely on the media for information about health care as rely on doctors or friends or family combined. In 2007, with health care a major... Continue reading

20. Campaign Desk

    Rudy’s Unhealthy Stats

    November 21, 2007 03:44 PM

    The coverage of Rudy Giuliani’s epidemiological error about his chances of surviving prostate cancer in England wasn't perfect, but it was enough to get his campaign to stop using his fuzzy numbers in radio ads. In the ad, aired... Continue reading

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