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1. Campaign Desk

   WaPo’s Misleading Social Security Piece

   November 8, 2011 11:05 AM

   By now we’re aware that The Washington Post supports serious changes in Social Security. In fact, the paper editorialized Friday that the word “thuggish” comes to mind when discussing ads from the AARP opposing Social Security cuts. “The... Continue reading

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   The “Government Takeover of Health Care” Is Baaaack!

   November 3, 2011 01:22 PM

   A “government takeover of health care” is back. At least it is in the mind of New Jersey governor Chris Christie. In an interview with talk radio show host Dom Giordano, the governor, who supports Mitt Romney’s presidential... Continue reading

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   The Massachusetts Disconnect

   October 26, 2011 03:27 PM

   Much of the national press took a pass last week on another important “study says” story out of Massachusetts. This is the second time in the last month where the national media missed a story with implications for the... Continue reading

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   AP Gives Half a Loaf on Long-Term Care

   October 25, 2011 01:18 PM

   When the CLASS Act, a part of the health reform law that would have begun to establish a national program to pay for long-term care, died two weeks ago, we urged that the media use its demise as a... Continue reading

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   The Human Faces behind the Social Security Rhetoric

   October 21, 2011 01:50 PM

   Finally, a mainstream media outlet has broken through the dominant narrative about Social Security and showed what the program means in dollars and cents to the fifty-five million people who rely on its monthly checks. You would never... Continue reading

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   Requiem for the CLASS Act

   October 17, 2011 01:48 PM

   On Friday, the stepchild of health reform died at the hands of the Obama administration, and the obits for the troubled long-term care program were mostly similar recitations of why the administration was not going forward to implement that portion... Continue reading

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   Good Work from the Times on Rate Increases

   October 14, 2011 09:00 AM

   Proving that not every story has to be a zillion words long or analyze a zillion data points to break important news, The New York Times produced a dandy little exposé this week about New York’s health insurers.... Continue reading

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   CJR’s Assignment Desk, Part I

   October 12, 2011 11:11 AM

   This summer, Phil Galewitz of Kaiser Health News wrote an intriguing piece published in The Washington Post about hospitals that market their emergency room services to potential customers. The story narrative seemed out-of-whack with the conventional wisdom about... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   Golden Teeth Redux

   October 7, 2011 11:29 AM

   Byron Harris, the dogged investigative reporter for Dallas, Texas television station WFAA, has come up with two more installments in his continuing investigation of the state’s Medicaid agency and the money it spends on braces for kids who, under the... Continue reading

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    CJR Holds a Town Hall in Nebraska

    October 5, 2011 12:49 PM

    In a recent column for The Washington Post, Richard Cohen recounted how FDR cried when he learned that children living in migrant worker camps had no toys for Christmas. “Don’t tell me any more, Helen,” he said to... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    Bad Omens for Health Care

    October 3, 2011 12:38 PM

    The big news in health care last week was, of course, that average annual premiums for family coverage through employers reached an all-time high of $15,037, a nine percent increase from last year. While the major media outlets were scrambling... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    Meet the Bay State’s Uninsured

    September 26, 2011 02:26 PM

    Last week the Census Bureau released new numbers showing that 5.6 percent of the population in Massachusetts remained without health insurance coverage. That’s a 42 percent drop in the number of the state’s uninsured since the law took... Continue reading

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    Keeping an Eye on Patient Safety, Part IV

    September 23, 2011 11:31 AM

    Slowly the public is coming to realize that health care institutions are not always safe places. Since the Institute of Medicine published its landmark study on unsafe medical care more than a decade ago, a grassroots patient safety movement has... Continue reading

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    Perry Misleads on RomneyCare

    September 19, 2011 01:08 PM

    It's becoming clear that Rick Perry has never met a buzzword he doesn’t like. We’ve heard that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme and that Medicare isn’t working. Now he has added the words “socialized medicine” to his stump... Continue reading

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    Deep Health Care Problems under Rick Perry’s Watch

    September 14, 2011 12:01 PM

    With the media hyper-focused on Texas governor Rick Perry’s not-too-flattering comments about Social Security, health care in his state seems like a woeful orphan in Medialand. That’s why Noam Levey deserves a shout-out for his recent Los Angeles Times story... Continue reading

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    Forget That Ponzi Scheme Stuff

    September 12, 2011 01:22 PM

    At the end of August, Nebraska senator Ben Nelson, a Democrat up for reelection next year, told members of the Lincoln Rotary Club that it didn’t look like he would support an extension of the payroll tax... Continue reading

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    Poking Holes in the Massachusetts Mantra

    September 8, 2011 03:51 PM

    Sunday’s New York Times piece comparing the records of GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Jon Huntsman on the topic of health reform was a fairly ho-hum recitation of what the three men did as governors... Continue reading

18. Campaign Desk

    Rate Regulation Blow-up in California

    September 6, 2011 12:58 PM

    The big news in health reform last week was the insurance industry’s victory in the California legislature, which scotched any possibility that the state—one of twenty-four that does not have power to reject rates regulators say are too high—would actually... Continue reading

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    Golden Teeth

    September 1, 2011 01:17 PM

    These days it’s rare for local TV stations to produce anything resembling an expose. With their steady diet of crime, weather, and canned medical news, there just isn’t room for the hard reporting. WFAA, the ABC affiliate in Dallas, has... Continue reading

20. Campaign Desk

    The Facts Ma’am—Just the Facts

    August 29, 2011 02:05 PM

    Rick Perry zipped into Ottumwa, Iowa Saturday with a message about Social Security. Along with the usual jabs at the president and the bad economy, Perry went after Social Security. Said candidate Perry: It’s a Ponzi scheme for... Continue reading

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