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11/18/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Jim Bean - What Social Security means to real people
11/16/10: The Education of Congressman-Elect Andy Harris - What does he know about health insurance?
11/12/10: Well, What Do You Know, Sherlock? - The media discover Social Security
11/11/10: The Education of Sen. Bennet - NPR passes along misinformation about Social Security
11/08/10: What Should John Boehner Do? - Kaiser asks the health cognoscenti
11/04/10: The Election Story Not Told - The irony of health reform
11/01/10: Medicare Beat Memo - What the campaign advertising missed
11/01/10: Setting the Record Straight on Campaign Ads - Who’s telling the truth about Medicare?
10/26/10: Social Security in Perspective, Part II - A conversation with Alicia Munnell
10/25/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Jennifer Putman - What Social Security means to real people
10/20/10: Health Care and the Massachusetts Governor’s Race - Kudos to WBUR
10/18/10: CBS Story Short but Not So Sweet - Skimpy info in the network’s take on retirement age
10/14/10: A Laurel to the Seattle Times - For investigating the state’s adult care homes
10/11/10: Another CJR Town Hall in the Badger State - Wisconsinites sound off about health reform and Social Security
10/05/10: Unintended Consequence Number 38 - The hospital big boys get bigger, too
10/05/10: Unintended Consequences - What the press should have known about health reform
10/01/10: A CJR Town Hall in the Badger State - Wisconsinites sound off about Russ Feingold
09/29/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Laurie Cooper - What Social Security means to real people
09/27/10: Distrust and Health Reform - The public smells a rat
09/23/10: Tracking the Tea Parties - Good work from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
09/16/10: CJR Holds a Town Meeting - Not everyone knows about health reform
09/14/10: A Rate Increase for James Windus - Where is the New York media?
09/14/10: Sebelius Watch, Part V - The war of words with insurers continues
09/10/10: Another Curious Omission - The Fiscal Times and Social Security
09/08/10: Some Curious Omissions - The New Yorker and Social Security
09/02/10: Keeping an Eye on Hospital Safety - A Laurel to the Las Vegas Sun
09/01/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Ronald Eaker - What Social Security means to real people
08/26/10: Alan Simpson Does it Again - This time the press pays attention—sort of
08/25/10: CJR Holds a Missouri Town Hall Meeting - Not many are wild about health reform
08/19/10: Those Social Security Code Words Again - The meaning behind the tweaks, privatization, and modest changes
08/17/10: More Codes in the Social Security War - WaPo unravels one and misses another
08/16/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Lonnie Judy - What Social Security means to real people
08/11/10: Food Stamps and Health - Let’s not forget the connection between the two
08/09/10: The Medicare Sales Job Moves Along - More media skepticism needed
08/06/10: Consumer Advice for Retirement Savings - What was the Times trying to tell us?
08/03/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Jennifer Tayabji - What Social Security means to real people
08/02/10: Hurray for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch - For puncturing the secrecy around doctors’ mistakes
07/30/10: Sebelius Watch, Part IV - The press falls for the bait
07/28/10: Kudos to The New York Times - For revealing the contradictions in health and financial reform
07/23/10: Paying Attention to Social Security - Two takes from the MSM
07/21/10: The Other Liz - Liz Fowler and the WellPoint connection
07/20/10: Social Security in Perspective - A conversation with Ted Marmor
07/13/10: A Fresh Take on Health Care - Does reform solve the ER problem?
07/08/10: Who Will Tell the People? - Social Security is the third rail for the MSM
07/07/10: The Passing of Dr. Robert Butler - And what he meant for journalists and journalism
06/30/10: A Tip of the Hat to The Oregonian - For finding health reform’s forgotten people
06/28/10: Welfare, Entitlements, and Sharron Angle - What sayeth she now?
The real cost of the "health care" discourse is HEALTH!
Framing the discussion only in terms of health care costs and insurance is as tunnel visioned as framing the swine flu threat in terms of vaccines.
Our society has proved it is quite capable of placing many more abulances at the bottom of the cliff, but painfully inept and in denial about how to stop the accidents from requiring them.
A TRUE discussion on HEALTH Care might include why the USDA and FDA , combined with the WHO and Surgeon General, and Congress, have refused to promote a system of agriculture that supports healthy, sustainable, wholesome nutrition to prevent diet related diseases.
Our justice system that enables products to be created and sold that are clearly at the root of human disease and threaten ALL life on earth, meat, dairy, chemical laden, "food" created in labs, makes me wonder how we can teach children right from wrong when there are several justice systems.
The media does a poor job in educating and informing the public about doctors who are writing books, making documentaries, about vegan diets being used ( as they have for centuries ) to reverse and cure disease.
The focus on health care through the myopic lense of insurance does pathetically little to get people eating in ways that will end disease, end environmental chaos and devastation animal agribusiness is causing, and mitigate the egregious, incalculable suffering we inflict upon other beings caught in the acculturated ideology that animals are mere commodities.
We ARE eating the planet to death and experiencing organ failure as well.
THe real story is how the food system has been hyjacked by Monsanto, ADM, Cargill, chemcial companies, and how the medical industrial complex has no interest in promoting HEALTH!
These do;
www.pcrm.org
www.plantbasednutrition.org
www.heartattackproof.com
www.drmcdougall.com
#1 Posted by Laura Slitt, CJR on Tue 11 Aug 2009 at 09:57 AM
the link to your newest article is dead
PS thank you for all of the great coverage on the issue
#2 Posted by The Man of the Peephole, CJR on Wed 10 Mar 2010 at 02:05 PM
Thank you. The link has been fixed.
#3 Posted by trudy lieberman, CJR on Wed 10 Mar 2010 at 04:26 PM
Trudy, have you looked into how GATS might be a dangerous wild card with regard to health policy
The US-Antigua online gambling case of several years ago amde it clear that GATS CAN suddenly trigger. One good resource is Global Trade Watch.
#4 Posted by Fur, CJR on Sun 21 Mar 2010 at 10:57 PM
Trudy,
Just received the latest Nebraska mag-congratulations on a well-earned award!!
Miss reading you in CR-but have followed some of your articles in CJR. Retirement in Texas is OK-moved here 2 years ago. Heading back to SB next week-first time since we moved.
Keep up the good work!!
Bob Glandt
#5 Posted by Bob Glandt, CJR on Thu 15 Jul 2010 at 10:58 AM
Thanks so much Bob. Good to hear from you. Did not know that you had retired. Texas may be warmer than SB in the winter, I guess. I am glad you read us on cjr.org. The posts are certainly shorter than the old CU stories.
Enjoy SB.
#6 Posted by Trudy Lieberman, CJR on Thu 15 Jul 2010 at 06:50 PM