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Infant Mortality, Abortion, and WellPoint’s Tonik Policy

It’s dot-connection time for the media

First, there was last week’s news that the U.S. ranks thirtieth in the world when it comes to infant mortality.... More

The Doctors and the Disabled

Have the doctors won on fee cuts?

The American Medical Association was positively gleeful after the House bill passed, quickly issuing a statement on its Web site... More

The Disabled and the Doctors

People with disabilities will still have to wait for Medicare

As members of Congress ticked off for the home crowds the general achievements of their narrowly passed bill Saturday, and... More

The Price of Medical Services

Is the conversation finally starting?

By now, most of the health care cognoscenti realize that we have not had a robust discussion of medical costs.... More

Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part IX

What does the public say?

Three years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More

The Devil in the Details, Part II

Who can afford health insurance after reform?

Every lobbyist swarming Capitol Hill these days knows that, when it comes to legislation, the devil is always lurking in... More

The Times Misses the Mark

A health care lobbyist puff piece that goes nowhere

What could The New York Times have been thinking when it fronted a piece the other day serving up some... More

Dr. Coca-Cola on Call

The king of Coke teams up with the family docs

One thing you have to say about the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is that it is... More

Truth Emerges about the Public Option

Who really will be allowed to join?

Sunday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, George and his guests suddenly realized that the public option, whatever shape it... More

The Latest News from Massachusetts

Obama comes to talk about energy, not health care

It is surprising, as The Washington Post noted Friday, that President Obama paid a political visit to help Massachusetts Gov.... More

Who Will Be at the Table, Part XVII

The docs are back for their piece of the pie

During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More

Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part VIII

Unintended consequences for patients

Three years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More

CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part VI

The view from Union Station, Washington D.C.

Everyone, it seems is trying to take the pulse of the electorate--Americans who, as the saying goes, vote with their... More

The Insurers’ Grand Strategy

More well-timed studies to influence the pols and the polls

I have no pipeline to the insurance industry gods, but for more than a year now, I have watched their... More

Who Will Be at the Table? Part XVI

Fighting a soda tax

During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More

WellPoint versus the State of Maine

Forget Olympia Snowe, there’s other news in the north country

For weeks, the only health reform news from Maine has swirled around Sen. Olympia Snowe. Would the state’s senior senator... More

The Devil in the Details, Part I

The tug-of-war over penalties for not buying coverage

Every lobbyist swarming Capitol Hill these days knows that when it comes to legislation, the devil is always lurking in... More

The Devil in the Details Archive

An archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “The Devil in the Details” articles

Here are the links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “The Devil in the Details” series, in descending order. 04/12/10:... More

Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part VII

Unintended consequences for small business

Three years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More

Baucus Watch, Part XVI

What we should have known all along

As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health care reform; any health care... More

We’re the Uber of organ transplants

“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”

‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’

A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation

Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on

The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition

The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’

It’s a story that is evolving in real time

CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage

On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?

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