06/25/10: The Docs and the Press - What a little help from their friends will do
06/21/10: More Words of Wisdom from Alan Simpson - Just who are the “lesser people” he had in mind?
06/18/10: A Laurel to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - For keeping the spotlight on the doctors’ shenanigans
06/16/10: Are All Americans Living Longer? - CNBC didn’t ask the right questions
06/14/10: Of Death Panels and Rationing - Don Berwick’s messy confirmation
06/10/10: Sebelius Watch, Part III - Schizophrenia over Medicare Advantage plans
06/08/10: The Small Business Angle, Part II - The Boston Globe discovers the fine print
06/07/10: The Small Business Angle - A gutsy piece from Colorado Public Radio
06/02/10: Another Take on the Times’s Memphis Piece - And the Social Security Connection
06/01/10: What Congress Giveth, It Also Taketh Away - Farewell COBRA extensions?
05/27/10: Secrecy at the Deficit Commission - Note to the media: It’s past time for a little sunshine here
05/25/10: William Greider on Social Security - A superb take on Obama’s deficit commission
05/24/10: Good Coverage at USA Today - Some smart takes on problems with health and financial reform
05/05/10: Everyone Knows the Troubles They’ve Seen - The press pays attention to WellPoint
04/30/10: More Words of Wisdom from Alan Simpson - Geezers vs. Gen X-ers vs. millenials, etc, etc.
04/28/10: Rick Foster’s Predictions - No bending of the cost curve in his crystal ball
04/26/10: Sebelius Watch, Part II - Will Madame Secretary rule with moral suasion?
04/21/10: The Midnight Ride of George Pataki - Who’s behind the ex-gov’s health repeal crusade?
04/19/10: Merrill Goozner on Tom Friedman - Why health care costs so much
04/16/10: Sebelius Watch - Does the administration want to make seniors wait longer for Medicare?
04/15/10: Bad News for Ben Nelson? - The Cornhusker Kickback still grates on Nebraskans
04/13/10: Finishing The Treatment - The New Republic ends its health care blog
04/12/10: The Devil in the Details, Part VIII - What’s really in store for seniors on Medicare?
04/07/10: The White House vs. the Associated Press - Is talking to the insurance industry off limits?
04/05/10: The Best-Covered News Story, Ever? - Does The New Republic live on Mars?
03/30/10: Laurel to Denver’s Westword - For explaining how insurance companies behave
03/30/10: The Devil in the Details, Part VII - Can insurers still dump you when you get sick?
03/26/10: At Last, the Press Discovers the Consumer Story - How will health reform affect you and me?
03/23/10: Bob Reich on the What-It-All Means Question - No paw prints of the Great Society here
03/22/10: A P.S. on WellPoint - Deconstructing the insurer’s grassroots campaign
03/22/10: The Meaning of Those CBO Numbers - Smoke and mirrors and the doctor fix
03/19/10: Social Security’s Code Words - Erskine Bowles takes the stage
03/17/10: Parsing the AP’s Health Care Primer - Its attempt at informing falls short
03/16/10: The President Pushes against Waste, Fraud, and Abuse - But what do those terms really mean?
03/15/10: Is the Past Prologue? - The pedigree of Alan Simpson
03/11/10: Medicare Kicks Out Fox Insurance - And therein lie some lessons for the press
03/10/10: What Was Sebelius Saying? - David Gregory didn’t probe too deeply
03/08/10: Regulating Health Care, Part III - When is an insurance company too small to cover?
03/03/10: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part X - Unintended consequences for low-income workers
03/01/10: The Cost of Living, Part III - Are the docs really going to drop their patients?
02/25/10: Takeaway from the Summit - Decoding what was said during yesterday’s health care reform meeting
02/25/10: The Cost of Living, Part II - A shout-out to the San Francisco Chronicle
02/22/10: CJR Holds a Town Hall Meeting - And finds a cross-section of public opinion on health reform
02/22/10: Sebelius Discovers More Rate Increases - And the press finally takes note
02/19/10: The Anthem Saga Revisited - What exactly was the Times trying to tell us?
02/17/10: On the Social Security Battlefront - Reporters and their sources
02/15/10: The Devil in the Details, Part VI - Needed: a health care primer for Fox News
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