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1. Campaign Desk

   Regulating Health Care, Part III

   March 8, 2010 11:12 AM

   The pols and the advocacy groups have told us for months that health reform is supposed to produce tighter regulation of insurance companies and better medical care. But corporate America has never taken kindly to any regulation that would lower... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part X

   March 3, 2010 12:35 PM

   Four years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as a model for other states and the federal government. That law has become the blueprint for health system change on... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   The Cost of Living, Part III

   March 1, 2010 11:20 AM

   Containing the runaway cost of medical care is the thorniest of all the thorny issues in the health-reform debate. There’s been tons of talk from politicians, advocates, and even health-care stakeholders about the need to reduce the nation’s rate of... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   Takeaway from the Summit

   February 26, 2010 03:36 PM

   For weeks leading up to the president’s health care summit yesterday, the media tossed around phrases like ‘kabuki dance,’ ‘dog-and-pony show,’ and ‘political theater.’ As February 25 approached, anticipation focused on ‘changing the game,’ ‘finding common ground,’ ‘taking a stab... Continue reading

5. Feature

   An Rx for Reporting

   February 25, 2010 02:55 PM

   Just before Christmas, a CNN poll asked Americans whether they favored or opposed the health-reform bills moving through Congress. Forty-two percent favored them, 56 percent were opposed. This and other polls released last fall also suggested that most Americans... Continue reading

6. Campaign Desk

   The Cost of Living, Part II

   February 25, 2010 11:42 AM

   Containing the runaway cost of medical care is the thorniest of all the thorny issues in the health-reform debate. There’s been tons of talk from politicians, advocates, and even health-care stakeholders about the need to reduce the nation’s rate of... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   CJR Holds a Town Hall Meeting

   February 22, 2010 04:37 PM

   The polls continue to say that roughly half of Americans don’t support health reform. A Zogby poll finds that about 51 percent of Americans oppose the Democratic version of health reform; a Quinnipiac University poll reports that 54... Continue reading

8. Campaign Desk

   Sebelius Discovers More Rate Increases

   February 22, 2010 02:40 PM

   We were pleased to see HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discover that high rate increases proposed by Anthem Blue Cross were not just a California phenom. A week ago Campaign Desk suggested that Sebelius, once the Kansas insurance commissioner,... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   The Anthem Saga Revisited

   February 19, 2010 12:04 PM

   The story idea seemed reasonable—a follow-up to the news that Anthem Blue Cross planned to raise rates on individual policies in California by as much as 35 percent. The first Anthem story last week was one of those Oh... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    On the Social Security Battlefront

    February 17, 2010 05:11 PM

    For months, Campaign Desk has observed that reporters covering health reform have used the same sources over and over. Now that the pols and some advocacy groups have resurrected Social Security as a target for political discussion, the same... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    The Devil in the Details, Part VI

    February 15, 2010 01:59 PM

    Every lobbyist swarming Capitol Hill these days knows that, when it comes to legislation, the devil is always lurking in the details, not lounging in the concepts. Yet concepts, not details, are drifting down to the public—who will be in... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    Regulating Health Care, Part II

    February 12, 2010 10:52 AM

    The pols and the advocacy groups have told us for months that health reform is supposed to produce tighter regulation of insurance companies and better medical care. But corporate America has never taken kindly to any regulation that would lower... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    Health Reform on C-SPAN

    February 10, 2010 03:27 PM

    Republicans waved a new flag of health reform opposition right after New Year’s, when Florida governor Charlie Crist attacked the president for health care secrecy—the same sort of attack Republicans and other opponents used on Hillary Clinton back in 1993.... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    Is Health Reform Dead or Alive?

    February 8, 2010 11:01 AM

    Last week, one Washington insider asked a Washington journalist why she had not written that health reform was dead. The journalist replied that she couldn’t do that until someone in power said so. Then she would have her story—with, of... Continue reading

15. Campaign Desk

    The Cost of Living Archive

    February 5, 2010 11:29 AM

    Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “The Cost of Living” series, in descending order. 02/02/11: The Cost of Living, Part IV - Digital mammograms in the medical marketplace 03/01/10: The... Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    The Cost of Living

    February 5, 2010 09:41 AM

    Containing the runaway cost of medical care is the thorniest of all the thorny issues in the health-reform debate. There’s been tons of talk from politicians, advocates, and even health-care stakeholders about the need to reduce the nation’s rate of... Continue reading

17. Campaign Desk

    Reality Check at the NewsHour

    February 1, 2010 10:19 AM

    Republicans may have succeeded in stalling health care reform, at least for now. But that doesn’t mean the press should give them a pass when they lie about where and how the plan falls short. That’s what Judy Woodruff did... Continue reading

18. Campaign Desk

    A Path out of the Health Care Mess?

    January 28, 2010 12:14 PM

    As readers of Campaign Desk know, we have long questioned the president’s leadership on health care, his number one domestic priority last year. Those questions remain relevant in 2010, especially since it appears that his domestic priority has... Continue reading

19. Campaign Desk

    A Tale of Two Jonathans

    January 28, 2010 09:21 AM

    Jonathan Gruber is an economist from MIT. Jonathan Oberlander is a political scientist from the University of North Carolina. Both are health policy experts—and, from what we can tell, both know their stuff. But the press has counted on Gruber... Continue reading

20. Campaign Desk

    The Devil in the Details, Part V

    January 25, 2010 11:12 AM

    Every lobbyist swarming Capitol Hill these days knows that, when it comes to legislation, the devil is always lurking in the details, not lounging in the concepts. Yet concepts, not details, are drifting down to the public—who will be in... Continue reading

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