A Laurel to The Record

For a disturbing tale of sickness and medical expense

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 31, 2012 at 11:15 AM

Lindy Washburn’s piece in the Bergen Record about medical debt and how it can cripple even those people with health... More

Medicare Versus Obamacare

The fight begins in Florida

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 30, 2012 at 12:22 PM

In the last few days, three mainstream news outlets elevated “Medicare: The Political Story” into the headlines. It was good... More

Jon Stewart Takes on Sebelius

What Madame Secretary didn’t say

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 25, 2012 at 12:38 PM

Jon Stewart welcomed Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius to The Daily Show Monday night, and it was great... More

Romney’s History on Medicare

How he came to accept “premium support”

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 23, 2012 at 12:19 PM

CNN’s exit poll Saturday told us that abortion, the budget deficit, the economy, and illegal immigration were the top voter... More

In South Carolina, Another Hospital/Journo Alliance

New twist, old problem

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 20, 2012 at 11:50 AM

Gary Schwitzer at Health News Review raised a question about journalistic ethics the other day when he took a whack... More

Medicare Vouchers Explained

A conversation with the Brookings Institution’s Henry Aaron

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 18, 2012 at 03:27 PM

In the Republican presidential debate Monday, Mitt Romney came out in favor of a "premium support program, which allows people... More

Legal Immigrants Win in Massachusetts

But the political press misses the story

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 16, 2012 at 12:34 PM

Today we begin a series of occasional posts that bring Campaign Desk readers up-to-date on the workings of Massachusetts health... More

“Firing” your insurance in Romney’s Massachusetts

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 11, 2012 at 12:59 PM

Romney’s remark Monday about firing your insurance company apparently harmed him little yesterday in the New Hampshire primary. But as... More

Why Might the Docs Be in a Fix?

A context-light, anecdote-heavy CNNMoney story fails to mention US’s high medical costs

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 11, 2012 at 11:49 AM

Sacre bleu! Docs are going broke! Or so says CNNMoney in a story that is a great example of a... More

Santorum Goes After Social Security

The AP covers Rick’s empty rhetoric

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 9, 2012 at 12:29 PM

Noting the media’s trivial pursuit of rising star Rick Santorum, my colleague Erika Fry has called for more substantive reporting... More

The Bloodying of PolitiFact

What is Medicare, anyway?

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 6, 2012 at 01:48 PM

Now it’s my turn to weigh in on the “Lie of the Year,” the gimmick PolitiFact uses to highlight the... More

A Good Payroll Tax Piece from the Post

Finally, some balance from WaPo

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 4, 2012 at 12:46 PM

At last The Washington Post, which shaped much of the media coverage of the defcit and entitlement discussion last year,... More

Best of 2011: Trudy Lieberman

CJR’s health and entitlements reporter picks her top stories from the past year

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 2, 2012 at 05:48 PM

Peter G. Peterson Goes to School: Organizations funded by Peter G. Peterson, a former Wall Street investment banker and long-time... More

The Kind of Medicare Story We’d Rather Not See

SmartMoney runs a lackluster listicle

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 23, 2011 at 01:44 PM

Anyone reading SmartMoney’s take on Medicare would want to get granny off the program in New York minute. It was... More

A Rate-Regulation Case Study in Pennsylvania

When insurance rates are news—and when they are not

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 21, 2011 at 04:26 PM

What’s so interesting about insurance rate regulation, and why is it worth reporting on? The topic has everything to do... More

The Coverage of Wyden-Ryan, Round One

Consensus building to privatize Medicare

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 19, 2011 at 01:59 PM

Robert Pear’s New York Times piece “Support Builds for a Plan To Rein In Medicare Costs” seemed like a leak.... More

Pinning Down the President

Challenging Obama for overpromising on health care

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 15, 2011 at 05:48 PM

In an interview with President Obama on 60 Minutes Sunday night, it was apparent Steve Kroft was taking his questioning... More

NPR and its Men-on-the-Street

Whom should we talk to?

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 14, 2011 at 02:00 PM

It seemed that Mike H., a frequent visitor to CJR.org, had a point. He commented the other day on one... More

Morning Edition Connects With Regular People

But is anybody listening in Washington, DC?

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 8, 2011 at 02:14 PM

The other day NPR did some solid man-on-the-street reporting, and found—as we have found in our ongoing Town Hall series—the... More

The Murky Politics of the Payroll Tax

The media begin to step in the muck

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 6, 2011 at 04:21 PM

Each day the payroll tax saga gets more complicated, and the public no doubt gets more confused. Bloomberg reporter Brian... More