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Who Will Be at the Table? Part X
June 23, 2009 03:02 PMDuring the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health care, he would “have insurance company representatives and drug company representatives at the table. They just won’t be able to... Continue reading
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What Journalists Can Learn from Celinda Lake
June 22, 2009 02:59 PMFirst there was Frank Luntz. Now, Celinda Lake is trying to do for the Dems what Luntz did for the GOP. Lake, a longtime Democratic strategist, has been hard at work crafting the right words and phrases to persuade the... Continue reading
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Baucus Watch, Part XI
June 19, 2009 04:00 PMAs chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health care reform; any health care legislation must pass through his committee. So what he says or doesn’t say is important to those following the twists... Continue reading
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Cost Savings Myopia
June 16, 2009 12:13 PMThe Hill’s Alexander Bolton gave us a glimpse of the budget games some members of Congress will happily play to ensure that one of their favorite strategies for controlling medical expenditures yields the savings they’d like to see.... Continue reading
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Excluded Voices
June 16, 2009 09:47 AMThis past year’s health discussion has been remarkable for the narrow range of ideas and opinions that have floated down to the man on the street. Journalists have sought out the same organizations and sources for their stories, offering up... Continue reading
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Stephanopoulos A-; Sebelius D
June 15, 2009 11:32 AMCampaign Desk was pleased to see This Week’s George Stephanopoulos try to pin down HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius yesterday. The effort was a big improvement over his previous health care interviews, when he acted like a shrinking violet,... Continue reading
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Health Care Flashpoints, Part II
June 12, 2009 12:32 PMOver the next few months, health reform will succeed or fail based on a few major flashpoints that will shape any new program, including the financing of health insurance and access to medical care itself. This is the second of... Continue reading
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Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part III
June 10, 2009 01:16 PMThree 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 major blueprint for health system change... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Who Will Be at the Table? Part IX
June 8, 2009 02:23 PMDuring the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health care, he would “have insurance company representatives and drug company representatives at the table. They just won’t be able to... Continue reading
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Postscript on Single Payer
June 5, 2009 12:33 PMFor months, single-payer advocates have been marginalized by a political establishment which has already defined the boundaries of this round of health reform. For the most part, the MSM have been uninterested in the activities of single-payer groups in California,... Continue reading
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What a Young Reporter Learned from the UAW
June 2, 2009 11:35 AMThere was a poignancy to Paul Solman’s News Hour interview Thursday with Ron Gettelfinger, the president of the United Auto Workers. Sadness and resignation, too. Here on their knees were the once mighty GM and its once mighty... Continue reading
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Baucus Watch, Part X
June 1, 2009 11:42 AMAs chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health care reform; any health care legislation must pass through his committee. So what he says or doesn’t say is important to those following the twists... Continue reading
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What the Heck Do the Senators Mean?
May 29, 2009 02:44 PMRight before the holiday weekend, Ohio senator Sherrod Brown and twenty-seven other Democratic senators introduced a sense of the Senate resolution "expressing the sense of the Senate that reform of our Nation’s health care system should include the... Continue reading
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Single-Payer Advocates Finally Get Their Say
May 22, 2009 12:56 PMTwice this month, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) has tossed single-payer advocates out of his finance committee hearings on health reform. The ejections, of course, have give the protestors much more exposure than if if Baucus had simply allowed their voices... Continue reading
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Excluded Voices
May 21, 2009 10:05 AMThis past year’s health discussion has been remarkable for the narrow range of ideas and opinions that have floated down to the man on the street. Journalists have sought out the same organizations and sources for their stories, offering up... Continue reading
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Where Will the Money Come From Redux
May 18, 2009 12:18 PMThe president scored a big one last week when he appeared on national TV with representatives of six big stakeholders in the health reform debate—the AMA; AHIP, the insurers trade group; PhRMA; the SEIU; the American Hospital Association; and AdvaMed,... Continue reading
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Where Will the Money Come From?
May 15, 2009 12:45 PMThis week, The Economist zoomed in on an issue that the press has overlooked of late: the details of where the money will come from to pay for health reform. The House document released yesterday calls... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Baucus Watch, Part IX
May 13, 2009 12:58 PMAs chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health care reform; any health care legislation must pass through his committee. So what he says or doesn’t say is important to those following the twists... Continue reading
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Will Health Care Providers Really Reduce Spending?
May 12, 2009 02:49 PMYesterday, six protagonists in Washington’s unfolding health care drama sent a letter to the President saying they have “joined together in an unprecedented effort…to offer concrete initiatives that will transform the health care system.” The American Hospital Association,... Continue reading
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What Journalists Can Learn from Frank Luntz
May 11, 2009 03:10 PMFrank Luntz reappeared last week when a tipster slipped Politico a twenty-eight-page document called “The Language of Healthcare 2009” that Luntz had given to Congressional Republicans. It quickly traveled through the blogosphere, and health reform proponents thought... Continue reading
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