Yes, Virginia, it Really Was a Republican Plan

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 9, 2010 at 11:40 AM

Sunday, the president admitted to Steve Kroft of CBS that the health reform law now known in the vernacular as... More

What Should John Boehner Do?

Kaiser asks the health cognoscenti

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 8, 2010 at 11:24 AM

One of the more interesting and informative pieces of journalism to cross my computer screen in recent months was a... More

The Election Story Not Told

The irony of health reform

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 4, 2010 at 10:43 AM

For months we knew that health reform was in big trouble. Tuesday night, we found out how big. Health care... More

Medicare Beat Memo

What the campaign advertising missed

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 1, 2010 at 12:04 PM

There are some uncomfortable truths about Medicare changes lurking in the health reform law. Because the pols on both sides... More

Setting the Record Straight on Campaign Ads

Who’s telling the truth about Medicare?

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 1, 2010 at 11:54 AM

Pity the senior citizens in the voting booth Tuesday. Who should they believe about Medicare—the Dems and their surrogates, who... More

Social Security in Perspective, Part II

A conversation with Alicia Munnell

By Trudy Lieberman   Oct 27, 2010 at 12:22 PM

Proposals to change the Social Security system are fast taking shape, and many of them call for substantial benefit cuts... More

Social Security in the Heartland: Jennifer Putman

What Social Security means to real people

By Trudy Lieberman   Oct 25, 2010 at 01:17 PM

This is the fifth of a series of posts that discuss how possible changes in Social Security will affect the... More

Health Care and the Massachusetts Governor’s Race

Kudos to WBUR

By Trudy Lieberman   Oct 20, 2010 at 11:54 AM

Through the long reform debate, health care and Massachusetts went together like love and marriage—or so the media told us.... More

CBS Story Short but Not So Sweet

Skimpy info in the network’s take on retirement age

By Trudy Lieberman   Oct 18, 2010 at 11:37 AM

I am not quite sure what point CBS Evening News had in mind a few days ago when it aired... More

A Laurel to the Seattle Times

For investigating the state’s adult care homes

By Trudy Lieberman   Oct 14, 2010 at 09:31 AM

We’ve become accustomed to newspaper exposes of nursing homes. But other places that house the frail elderly are another matter.... More

Another CJR Town Hall in the Badger State

Wisconsinites sound off about health reform and Social Security

By Trudy Lieberman   Oct 11, 2010 at 11:45 AM

Can I talk to you about health reform, I asked twenty-eight-year-old Michelle Zywicki, who was working at a computer in... More

Unintended Consequence Number 38

The hospital big boys get bigger, too

By Trudy Lieberman   Oct 5, 2010 at 02:26 PM

Over at Kaiser Health News, staff writer Julie Appleby produced an illuminating story about ongoing consolidation among hospitals and physician... More

Unintended Consequences

What the press should have known about health reform

By Trudy Lieberman   Oct 5, 2010 at 02:20 PM

During the health reform debate, the Obama administration stuck to its mantra—the law would bring competition to health care, which... More

A CJR Town Hall in the Badger State

Wisconsinites sound off about Russ Feingold

By Trudy Lieberman   Oct 1, 2010 at 01:04 PM

In this land of beer, brats, and the Packers, it is the autumn of discontent. Anger, distrust, apprehension, disaffection—these are... More

Social Security in the Heartland: Laurie Cooper

What Social Security means to real people

By Trudy Lieberman   Sep 29, 2010 at 12:38 PM

Before the year ends, the president’s deficit commission will bring forth a plan for cutting the deficit. While commission co-chairs... More

Distrust and Health Reform

The public smells a rat

By Trudy Lieberman   Sep 27, 2010 at 08:00 AM

A fine piece last Wednesday by Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown dissects what political prognosticators from Bill Clinton to Obama pollster... More

Tracking the Tea Parties

Good work from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

By Trudy Lieberman   Sep 23, 2010 at 11:56 AM

Thumbs up to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for a bright, engaging piece about the Tea Party movement in Wisconsin. The... More

CJR Holds a Town Meeting

Not everyone knows about health reform

By Trudy Lieberman   Sep 16, 2010 at 09:06 AM

A year ago last August, I visited the college town of Columbia, Missouri, and did man-on-the-street interviews with small business... More

A Rate Increase for James Windus

Where is the New York media?

By Trudy Lieberman   Sep 14, 2010 at 09:40 AM

James Windus, a New York City personal trainer, got a nasty letter a few weeks ago from his insurance carrier,... More

Sebelius Watch, Part V

The war of words with insurers continues

By Trudy Lieberman   Sep 14, 2010 at 09:34 AM

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has emerged as the person to watch as the Obama administration scrambles to... More