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  1. Swing States Project

    How the phantom of ‘socialized medicine’ came to be

    September 26, 2012 11:00 AM

    Jill Lepore deserves a Laurel for her engrossing tale of how political communications came to be so toxic. In "The Lie Factory," Lepore describes the work of the firm Campaigns, Inc., founded in 1933 by... Continue reading

  2. Swing States Project

    Eureka! The media discovers Medicaid

    September 24, 2012 06:51 AM

    Ah Medicaid! What can we say about it? Until the last couple of weeks, the press has said almost nothing. It’s not sexy; not fun to write about. It affects poor people who don’t bring in traffic. And it can... Continue reading

  3. The Kicker

    The bogeyman is back!

    September 21, 2012 01:14 PM

    Aw come on! We would have thought by now the $716 billion Medicare bogeyman was dead and buried. Maybe not. The Columbia (Missouri) Daily Tribune proves us wrong, dragging out that canard about Obama and the Dems cutting billions... Continue reading

  4. Swing States Project

    Medicare: Where’s the evidence that vouchers save money?

    September 18, 2012 10:48 AM

    Margot Sanger-Katz, a National Journal reporter who has been brave enough to question conventional wisdom surrounding health policy—she reported that elements of the Affordable Care Act “designed to lower costs will likely raise them instead”—has now taken a... Continue reading

  5. Swing States Project

    What a higher Retirement Age really means

    September 13, 2012 06:50 AM

    The idea of raising the age at which workers can collect benefits from Social Security is very much in play. Mitt Romney told the Detroit Economic Club in February that he will “slowly raise the retirement age”... Continue reading

  6. Swing States Project

    Medicare ‘bankruptcy’: CNN gets it right

    September 11, 2012 07:10 AM

    Hooray for CNN.com, for fact checking the often-heard claim of Medicare’s “impending” bankruptcy. CNN’s contribution sets a high bar, and the network also distinguishes itself from the over-the-top fact checking that has cropped up lately, as <a... Continue reading

  7. Swing States Project

    Medicare spending: Do Obama and Romney see eye-to-eye?

    September 10, 2012 11:00 AM

    Several days ago, Matthew Yglesias dug deeply into the Medicare weeds, arguing in Slate that Obama and Ryan basically agree on what needs to be done to Medicare costs. “They have essentially the same plan to control Medicare... Continue reading

  8. Swing States Project

    The word on the street: disillusioned

    September 6, 2012 06:54 AM

    Over the weekend, I visited an Italian festival in Scranton, PA, where the crowd, mostly older and white, had gathered in the town square to hear music and eat cannolis. But when I brought up politics, especially Medicare and Social... Continue reading

  9. Swing States Project

    Parsing Romney on healthcare

    August 31, 2012 11:16 AM

    Before Chris Wallace got to the soft stuff of his Fox News Sunday interview last week with The Family Romney and before we learned that Ann loves Costco, Wallace zoomed in on some serious matters, like healthcare. What... Continue reading

  10. Swing States Project

    A dart to the AP—and a laurel!

    August 31, 2012 11:00 AM

    Dart The Associated Press misled its many readers, unfortunately, about what is a Social Security benefit cut and what is not. A piece published August 27, one in a series the AP... Continue reading

  11. Swing States Project

    A laurel to Jackie Calmes of The New York Times

    August 24, 2012 04:04 PM

    This week’s laurel goes to Jackie Calmes of The New York Times for reporting the increasing skepticism in health policy circles about claims from the Romney-Ryan ticket that Medicare beneficiaries will be hurt because... Continue reading

  12. Swing States Project

    The word on the street: apprehensive

    August 24, 2012 11:47 AM

    The idea of privatizing Medicare is not winning popularity contests with voters. A Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday found that the public is aware of the proposal by GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan to transform Medicare... Continue reading

  13. Campaign Desk

    Medicare and the $716 billion bogeyman

    August 22, 2012 11:17 AM

    It’s been hard to escape from Medicare in the 11 days since Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan burst into the news as vice presidential candidate with big and well known ideas about the health program for nearly 50 million Americans. Medicare... Continue reading

  14. Behind the News

    Profits vs. patients: The Tampa Bay Times complicates a story

    August 20, 2012 11:32 AM

    The Tampa Bay Times, formerly known as The St. Petersburg Times, deserves a shout-out for jumping on the local angle of The New York Times’s two-part expose on HCA, the nation’s largest hospital chain—and advancing the story. And... Continue reading

  15. Campaign Desk

    When hospital profits clash with patient care: an investigation

    August 17, 2012 11:24 AM

    This week The New York Times concluded a rare look at the inner workings of the country’s biggest for-profit hospital chain. The two-part expose is significant, coming at a time when places of healing are rapidly organizing themselves into big... Continue reading

  16. Campaign Desk

    Medicare, Paul Ryan, and beyond: a primer

    August 15, 2012 03:25 PM

    Mitt Romney’s choice of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential nominee elevates Medicare and Medicaid (along with Social Security) to Level A campaign issues. Ryan has emerged as a leading Congressional thinker and idea shaper for... Continue reading

  17. Campaign Desk

    How to measure the worth of Social Security

    August 9, 2012 02:50 PM

    Is Social Security a good deal for workers? That’s the question the AP posed in an August 5 piece dredging up a very old argument against Social Security—that workers pay more into the program than they later get... Continue reading

  18. The Kicker

    Required skimming: healthcare politics and policy

    August 8, 2012 06:50 AM

    This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Kaiser Health News... Continue reading

  19. Campaign Desk

    What makes Paul Ryan tick?

    August 8, 2012 06:50 AM

    For those closely observing the attacks on Medicare and Social Security, Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker profile piece in the August 6 issue is a must read. Lizza spent a lot of time with US Rep. Paul Ryan, R-WI,... Continue reading

  20. Campaign Desk

    Romney likes Israeli healthcare

    August 6, 2012 06:50 AM

    Thanks to Mitt Romney’s laudatory remarks about the Israeli health system during his trip to Israel, we now know a bit about how another country provides healthcare—and how that nation manages to have better mortality and other outcomes than we... Continue reading

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