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Campaign Desk
Memo to Joe Nocera
June 6, 2011 12:11 PMDear Joe: It was good to see your column on Medicare in The New York Times the other day. I had heard from a mutual source that you were set to tackle the subject. That’s all to the... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Intense Health Reform Drama in the Maine Legislature
June 3, 2011 10:43 AMIf the old political adage “as goes Maine, so goes the nation” has any currency these days, health insurers may have lost last year’s battle—but they’re winning the war. The intense drama in the Maine legislature the last few weeks... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Medicare’s Real Cost Problem
May 31, 2011 11:45 AMPerhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In this ongoing series, “Covering Medicare,” we will follow the reportage and offer Medicare beat memos from time to time.... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
More from Candidate Pawlenty
May 26, 2011 03:12 PMIt’s hard to know what to make of Tim Pawlenty, the Gopher State’s ex-governor, tramping around the country building his presidential campaign. Was/is he a state budget fixer-upper? A Tea Party sympathizer? A foe of Social Security and... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
A Beat Memo on Medicare
May 25, 2011 12:54 PMPerhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In this ongoing series, “Covering Medicare,” we will follow the reportage and offer Medicare beat memos from time to time.... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Means-Testing Medicare, According to CQ
May 23, 2011 11:48 AMPerhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In this new series, “Covering Medicare,” we will follow the reportage and offer Medicare beat memos from time to... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Challenging Newt’s Medicare Walkback
May 18, 2011 03:58 PMPoor Newt Gingrich! What a beating he’s taken since he said on Meet the Press Sunday that Paul Ryan’s scheme to privatize Medicare was “too big a jump” for Americans, just like Obama’s health care law is. The... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Candidate Pawlenty and Social Security
May 17, 2011 01:41 PMNot long ago, presidential aspirant Tim Pawlenty sat down with reporters from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for a heart-to-heart about his policy positions. The interview covered everything from from Libya to health care. (We know where he stands... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Romney and His Health Care Plan
May 13, 2011 02:26 PMIt would seem that the press coverage of Mitt Romney’s health care speech in Michigan yesterday was greater than media coverage of the Massachusetts law itself when it was held up as the model for federal reform legislation. This time,... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The AP Takes the Public’s Pulse
May 9, 2011 02:33 PMPerhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In this new series, “Covering Medicare,” we will follow the reportage and offer Medicare beat memos from time to time.... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Single Sourcing on a Medicare Story at NPR
May 4, 2011 12:23 PMPerhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In this new series, “Covering Medicare,” we will follow the reportage and offer Medicare beat memos from time to time.... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Kudos to Remapping Debate
May 2, 2011 09:59 AMJames Lardner deserves a loud shout-out for his piece about the movement—somewhat dormant until now—to make patients into consumers, meaning that they should pay more for their health insurance and be crackerjack shoppers to boot. That’s called “having... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
A Missing Medicare Link from The New York Times
April 27, 2011 12:13 PMPerhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In this new series, “Covering Medicare,” we will follow the reportage and offer Medicare beat memos from time to... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
CJR Holds a Town Hall in Philly
April 25, 2011 01:48 PMFinding myself in Philadelphia recently, I decided to stroll along Market Street and see which of the day’s big political issues ordinary people had on their minds. Medicare topped the list, followed by Social Security and job security. The day... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Michelle Malkin vs. Reality
April 22, 2011 11:19 AMReaders of Investor’s Business Daily were treated to an op-ed recently by columnist Michelle Malkin, who was apparently making a plea for raising Social Security’s retirement age to seventy. Malkin, whose work skews conservative, was once a commentator... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Chipping Away at Health Reform, Part II
April 20, 2011 10:08 AMThroughout the health care debate, Oregon senator Ron Wyden worried whether Americans who will be required to buy health insurance would be able to afford it. In an interview with Campaign Desk a few months before the law passed,... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Chipping Away at Health Reform
April 19, 2011 09:47 AMThe health reform law, aka the Affordable Care Act, took a hit last week. Many journos, though, were apparently snoozing. In a talk at the annual meeting of the Association of Health Care Journalists, Washington and Lee University law professor... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Health Care in the Real World
April 13, 2011 07:11 AMSteve Luxenberg, an associate editor at The Washington Post, gives a different twist on covering high-deductible health plans, that new genre of health insurance that we hope journos--and their editors--will see fit to report on from time to... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
A Good Social Security Story—At Last
April 11, 2011 12:35 PMLast week Reuters sent out a fine piece by Emily Kaiser that helped readers understand what the Social Security fight is all about by giving them enough context and history to get the gist of the debate—if it... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Covering Medicare Archive
April 8, 2011 12:01 PMThis is an archive of Trudy Lieberman's "Covering Medicare" articles, presented in descending order. 08/15/12: Medicare, Paul Ryan, and beyond: a primer - Here’s context to clarify the big entitlements debates 08/08/12: What makes Paul Ryan tick? -... Continue reading
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