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1. Campaign Desk

   Revisiting the Man in the Middle

   August 24, 2011 03:44 PM

   As the Great Health Care Debate wound down, we visited Jeremy Devor, an engineering assistant in Salem, Illinois, a town of about 11,000, 254 miles south of Chicago, smack in the middle of corn country. The unemployment rate there... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   CJR Holds a Town Hall in Missouri

   August 22, 2011 03:25 PM

   As Barack Obama’s bus cruised through the heartland last week, the media told us a fair amount about what the president said. In Alpha, Illinois, Obama gave a less-than-clear explanation of the amount of wages subject to the Social Security... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   The Back Story on Medicare’s Wild Spending

   August 17, 2011 02:55 PM

   It’s no secret Medicare spending is on a wild ride northward. The politicians--Dems and Republicans alike--tell us that every day. What has not been brought into the conversation is why. Now every reporter was taught at some point that “why”... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   Romney and His Corporate Man

   August 15, 2011 12:44 PM

   It’s hard to say what was the point of NPR’s coverage of Mitt Romney’s visit to the Iowa State Fair. We learned he was tanned and relaxed in a blue golf shirt, and that he opposed raising taxes... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   A Hospital Story Not to Write

   August 11, 2011 01:43 PM

   My Association of Health Care Journalists colleague Charlie Ornstein likes to say that stories about hospital ribbon-cuttings, wings named for wealthy benefactors, and expensive new technology are what hospitals want journalists to report on. They are less eager to have... Continue reading

6. Campaign Desk

   Is Tim Pawlenty For Real?

   August 8, 2011 01:03 PM

   The Minneapolis StarTribune’s piece on presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty is the kind of story voters can expect to see at this stage in the presidential campaign. The story investigated the candidate’s health care stance, flip-flops and all. The... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   Playing It Safe the McCaskill Way

   August 4, 2011 11:48 AM

   I guess it’s too much to hope that the Sunday morning news shows could ever rise above the typical blather from the guests and tepid interviewing by the host. The latest edition of Meet the Press certainly didn’t... Continue reading

8. Campaign Desk

   The Deficit Deal Defined

   August 2, 2011 01:34 PM

   Presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett chatted with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC yesterday as part of a sales job for the deficit deal that smacked of the White House marketing campaign after health reform passed. “I think we are going... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   Paul Krugman on Journalistic Balance

   August 1, 2011 01:28 PM

   New York Times columnist Paul Krugman addressed the cult of balance in the debt debate Friday when he wrote: News reports portray the parties as equally intransigent; pundits fantasize about some kind of ‘centrist’ uprising as if the... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Grandparent of the Chained CPI

    July 28, 2011 02:54 PM

    Sarah Cohen, a professor at the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke, and a one-time reporter for the St. Petersburg Times, sent along a story she had written in 1995, another era when there was serious talk... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    Covering the Chained CPI

    July 26, 2011 02:42 PM

    There are five ways to cover the Chained CPI, a proposed new method for determining the cost-of-living (COLA) adjustments that Social Security beneficiaries and others will be eligible to receive: (1) You can avoid covering the issue at all... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    Social Security Cuts and the CLASS Act

    July 21, 2011 04:42 PM

    If the MSM is to be believed, soon we will know what cuts Congress has in mind for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the much maligned CLASS Act. That was a provision in the health reform law championed by the... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    A Shout Out to The Palm Beach Post

    July 20, 2011 02:32 PM

    The Palm Beach Post deserves kudos for exposing how Florida governor Rick Scott conducted the business of his urgent care clinics in the state, and what his actions reveal for health care to come. Scott is something of... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    A Medicare Miss at the LA Times

    July 18, 2011 02:33 PM

    Medicare is a bear to write about. It’s tough for beneficiaries to understand, and unclear news stories only serve to compound their confusion. That’s what last week’s LA Times story on Medicare costs did. The paper’s thesis was... Continue reading

15. Campaign Desk

    Good and Bad from the NewsHour

    July 14, 2011 01:01 PM

    The NewsHour presented an interesting program the other night and the program’s customary balance format actually produced some illuminating journalism. It was The Wall Street Journal’s Naftali Bendavid vs. Andy Kohut, the pollster from the Pew Research Center.... Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    Joe Lieberman and his Medicare Gift

    July 11, 2011 01:00 PM

    Leave it to Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman to speed along the process of making seniors on Medicare pay more for their care—the cost control method of choice at the moment, since it doesn’t disturb the profits of major stakeholders. After... Continue reading

17. Campaign Desk

    Keeping an Eye on Patient Safety, Part III

    July 6, 2011 01:37 PM

    Slowly the public is coming to realize that hospitals 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 blossomed. This... Continue reading

18. Campaign Desk

    An Interview with Don Barlett

    June 30, 2011 10:00 AM

    After writing nearly 500 posts over the last few years on health care, Medicare, and Social Security, I have observed that, for the most part, voices of ordinary people affected by policy changes decreed by elites and passed on by... Continue reading

19. Campaign Desk

    On the Health Policy Beat

    June 13, 2011 12:12 PM

    As we head into a new presidential campaign with health care likely to be one of the defining issues, Campaign Desk thought it a good idea to talk to some health beat reporters who try to bring the story home... Continue reading

20. Campaign Desk

    Jon Huntsman’s Vision for the Future of Medicare

    June 9, 2011 12:49 PM

    Potential presidential candidate Jon Huntsman’s recent Wall Street Journal op-ed was thoroughly predictable, containing lots of the acceptable phrases for GOP discourse: stuff about not underestimating the “seriousness of the responsibility,” the need to “make hard decisions now,”... Continue reading

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