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1. Campaign Desk

   About Those Holes in Your Health Policy

   May 12, 2008 09:00 AM

   How ironic that the campaign has been marked by Democrats pushing for universal health insurance coverage just as the country is in the throes of a de-insurance movement. While more Americans have come to believe everyone should be covered, many... Continue reading

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   The World’s Best Health Care—Really?

   May 8, 2008 08:30 AM

   The Rocky Mountain News’s coverage of John McCain’s campaign stop in Denver last week raises an important issue for reporters, especially those covering the election: Do you let a candidate’s remarks stand unchallenged even if they are wrong or... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   McCain’s Health-Care Muddle

   May 1, 2008 01:24 PM

   John McCain finally came forth this week with what his campaign dubbed a major policy speech, laying out his To Do list for health care reform. We at CJR have been asking a lot about his plans... Continue reading

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   Missing: Single-Payer in Pennsylvania

   April 30, 2008 03:01 PM

   The Pennsylvania primary may be over, but one of the campaign’s hottest and most fiercely contested issues—whether the state on its own can reform health care and cover some portion of the uninsured— is not. Right before the primary, David... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   Health Reform and the Single Girl

   April 25, 2008 01:06 PM

   Health reform reportage could use some freshening up. We’ve been through nearly seven months of pronouncements, misstatements, and miscues, of phony mandate vs. no mandate rhetoric and scary fake buzzwords like “socialized medicine.” (Now, with McCain stepping up his health... Continue reading

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   Memo to McCain: Dems Are Not Calling for Government Health Care

   April 22, 2008 11:00 AM

   On his This Week program on Sunday, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos seemed to try to redeem his thoroughly unstellar performance in the last Clinton-Obama debate. He took on John McCain and bored in on what he called the candidate’s “evolving... Continue reading

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   McCain’s Quiet Medicare Bombshell

   April 18, 2008 10:00 AM

   Tuesday night the News Hour with Jim Lehrer dutifully reported that John McCain had been in Pittsburgh that day—tax day, as it happens—at Carnegie Mellon delivering a speech about his economic proposals. The NewsHour’s Kwame Holman quickly noted that... Continue reading

8. Campaign Desk

   $17 Million a Day to Influence Congress

   April 16, 2008 01:22 PM

   On Bill Moyers Journal Friday night, David Beckmann, who heads the hunger advocacy group Bread for the World, recalled his visit with Senate Majority leader Harry Reid. Reid told Beckmann, “Look, I’ve been here thirty-five years. I think the two... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   The Forgotten Health Issue

   April 14, 2008 09:00 AM

   The Los Angeles Times provided a wide opening for the media to ask the candidates about their plans for long-term care, a topic that has hardly been mentioned in the campaign. It’s almost like there’s a conspiracy of silence... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Globe Dissects McCain’s Health Plan

    April 8, 2008 12:54 PM

    Cheers to The Boston Globe for taking a look at John McCain’s ideas for health reform. McCain had pretty much escaped media scrutiny on this issue until last week when Elizabeth Edwards challenged a key point: whether he would... Continue reading

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    Hillary’s Bad Facts

    April 7, 2008 11:45 AM

    For the last few weeks Hillary Clinton has been telling a health care horror story that deeply touched her and those who listened. It was about a woman named Trina Bachtel who lost her life and her baby son after... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    Looking Under Hillary’s Caps

    April 3, 2008 01:18 PM

    Hillary Clinton brought a bit of news to the health beat last week, revealing to New York Times reporter Kevin Sack that she thinks individuals and families should pay no more than 5 to 10 percent of their income... Continue reading

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    Elizabeth Edwards on John McCain’s Health Policy

    April 1, 2008 01:50 PM

    Elizabeth Edwards told some 500 health journalists the other day that John McCain’s health care plan was like “painting lipstick on a pig,” an expression from her neck of the woods that in this case means lofty-sounding words that... Continue reading

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    A Health Care Conversation Opener

    March 26, 2008 10:29 AM

    If bloggers are the new citizen journalists, then it’s good to see citizens talking about health care. Not always, actually—there is no shortage of blog bombast about the candidates or their health-care proposals, and way too much nasty commentary. But... Continue reading

15. Campaign Desk

    The Missing Genre

    March 25, 2008 10:10 AM

    Not long ago I met Charles, a fifty-four-year-old man living in a poor Cleveland neighborhood. He had run out of his blood pressure pills and he had no money to buy more. His arm was tingling and his vision blurry.... Continue reading

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    Good Angle on the Drug Industry

    March 18, 2008 09:00 AM

    Three cheers for Jeffrey Birnbaum, staff writer at The Washington Post, for providing a fresh look at the powerful drug industry lobby, and some of the surprising ways it is trying to exert its influence on the health care... Continue reading

17. Campaign Desk

    “Socialized Medicine” R.I.P.

    March 17, 2008 03:40 PM

    The media searching for a new healthcare angle to cover during the long wait until the Pennsylvania primary might want to look at a recent poll from the Harvard Opinion Research Program and Harris Interactive. Its key finding: the... Continue reading

18. Campaign Desk

    McCain’s Health-Care Disconnect

    March 11, 2008 01:35 PM

    In his victory speech last week, John McCain finally mentioned health care. Until now, he has hasn’t said much about what is the number two or number three issue (depending on the state or the poll) on the mind of... Continue reading

19. Campaign Desk

    Dude, Where’s My Health Care?

    March 6, 2008 02:48 PM

    Young Thomas Mahoney was everywhere. The twenty-one-year-old’s confrontation with the health insurance system made news across the country, thanks to an Associated Press story that was picked up far and wide—KCBS, the Pioneer Press, MSNBC, and The Washington Post... Continue reading

20. Campaign Desk

    Accuracy in Truth Squading II

    March 3, 2008 12:48 PM

    On Saturday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer punctured a few holes in an ad sponsored by the giant Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The union, which is supporting Barack Obama, took to the airwaves to pump up its candidate in... Continue reading

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