So, are the solutions to our health care problems national or, as politicians like Pawlenty have claimed for years, local? It depends on which side of the table you’re sitting on. That’s good to remember when sorting through the myriad health care claims we’ll be hearing from candidates in 2012.
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Good piece, Trudy, thanks. And many thanks to Lorna Benson. I thought Pawlenty's claims sounded suspicious when I listened to that NPR interview. Someone should forward this piece to the folks at NPR.
#1 Posted by Harris Meyer, CJR on Mon 14 Feb 2011 at 10:37 PM
"This just in: GOP BLOWHARD NOT SO HONEST!"
Uh, yeah! Establishment darlings are fork-tongued almost by definition.
What next? An AP investigation revealing that Barney Frank has a lisp?
#2 Posted by Dan A., CJR on Tue 15 Feb 2011 at 02:01 AM
If only 'public radio' had been so quick off the mark on President Obama. He sold his health care plan as 'not a tax', and there wasn't a peep out of the mainstream media, including CJR. Now his lawyers are in court defending the constitutionality of the the mandates to buy health insurance as a condition of . . . being alive in this country, I guess . . . on the grounds that the interstate commerce clause gives the federal government essentially unlimited authority over individual economic choices, and that the interstate commerce clause includes the federal government's right to tax such commerce. Again, not a peep out of the supposedly impartial and skeptical MSM, including Trudy Lieberman and CJR. Pawlenty's 'claims' are chump change by comparison. What a bunch of liberal posers most journalists are. It's all in the choice of what is 'news' (embarrassments to the party of the urban middle class is less likely to be highlighted as 'news' compared to those of the party of unhip suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas) and how it is framed.
#3 Posted by Mark Richard, CJR on Tue 15 Feb 2011 at 12:30 PM
"Sonier [a "senior resaerch fellow] said no providers have been willing to try out the original baskets of care that were created by the state."
That is a fact check?
A journalist asked a research fellow to make a statement?
How can we judge this? We have no information on whether Sonier has been dedicated to studying this information, or what the source is for her claim that no providers have taken up the original set of baskets.
We don't even discover whether this information - which providers sign up - is commonly available, or only available within the govt, and otherwise by special arrangement.
So, we have an opinion, and no background for judging the authority of the "expert."
check this out: I put "Julie Sonier" in Altavista, a search-engine thingie on the interweb thingie.
Ms. Sonier seems to be some health data manager for the state.
Sounds good.
Thanks, everyone - you are welcome.
#4 Posted by MeToo, CJR on Tue 15 Feb 2011 at 12:54 PM
Getting a quote from the opposition party (in this case, Berglin) is perfectly good journalism, as it shows opinions from both sides. It's not "truth-squadding," though, simply because a politician in the other party disagrees.
#5 Posted by Tom T., CJR on Tue 15 Feb 2011 at 06:28 PM