10/20/09: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part VII - Unintended consequences for patients
10/15/09: CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part VI - The view from Union Station, Washington D.C.
10/13/09: The Insurers’ Grand Strategy - More well-timed studies to influence the pols and the polls
10/12/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part Sixteen - Fighting a soda tax
10/09/09: WellPoint versus the State of Maine - Forget Olympia Snowe, there’s other news in the north country
10/08/09: The Devil in the Details, Part I - The tug-of-war over penalties for not buying coverage
10/07/09: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part VII - Unintended consequences for small business
10/02/09: Baucus Watch, Part XVI - What we should have known all along
09/30/09: Journalism in the Heartland - A shout out to the Kansas City Star and the Salina (Kan.) Journal
09/29/09: CJR’s Town Hall Meetings: Scranton, Pennsylvania - The view from an Italian festival
09/27/09: Baucus Watch, Part XV - What’s the senator hiding in his bill?
09/25/09: A Dart to Health Affairs - Policy journal jumps in bed with Aetna
09/23/09: Baucus Watch, Part XIV - The senator confronts the affordability question
09/22/09: When a Tax Is a Tax - The New York Times explains
09/21/09: The President versus Stephanopoulos - When is a tax not a tax?
09/20/09: Medical Homes? You’ve Got To Be Kidding - The new health care dialect
09/18/09: Examining the Individual Mandate - The Wall Street Journal takes a hard look in Massachusetts
09/16/09: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part VI - The canary in the coal mine
09/14/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part Fifteen - The gun owners come out of the woodwork
09/11/09: CJR’s Town Hall Meetings: Columbia, Missouri - The view from Main Street
09/10/09: What Did the President Really Say? - More goals and details and questions to ponder
09/09/09: Baucus Watch, Part XIII - At last, the senator brings forth a plan
09/09/09: Where Have All the Health Reform Goals Gone? - What will Obama articulate tonight?
09/08/09: CJR’s Town Hall Meetings: Honesdale, Pennsylvania - The view from Wal-Mart
09/08/09: Shout-outs to the Kansas City Star and Kaiser News Service - For starting to fill in the blanks on health reform
09/04/09: CJR’s Town Hall Meetings: Columbia, Missouri - The view from the heartland—the patients
09/02/09: The Op-Ed No One Wanted - Canada’s corpse-strewn landscape?
08/31/09: CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part I - The view from Starbucks at Fifteenth and Third
08/28/09: Laurel to T.R. Reid - For extraordinary clarity in explaining foreign health systems
08/26/09: Ted Kennedy’s Health Care Legacy - Reporting on the lion
08/25/09: Was a Public Plan Ever Really in the Cards? - Did Sebelius speak the truth?
08/24/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part Fourteen - Those clever drug companies
08/18/09: Excluded Voices - An interview with Andrew Dillon, who heads Britain’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
08/17/09: Reality Check for the White House - Axelrod’s e-mail raises more questions
08/13/09: Straight Talk, Part I - The end-of-life myth and the real long-term care stories to be told
08/11/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part Thirteen - United Healthcare has a mighty big seat
08/10/09: Health Reform and Obama’s Consumer Protections - Good for consumers, or good for insurers?
08/05/09: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part V - Finding affordable health insurance
08/04/09: Health Care Homework for the LA Times - How does the Canadian medical system actually work?
08/03/09: Detailing the Details - A few bright spots in the media’s health reform coverage
07/31/09: Pelosi, Prevention, and PBS - Is Madame Speaker misinformed?
07/30/09: Shades of Richard Nixon - Is Obama playing defense or offense?
07/28/09: Health Reform Too Boring for Broadcast? - Not at KQED
07/27/09: Baucus Watch, Part XII - The mother’s milk of politics and more
07/24/09: All the President’s Words, Part II - Slogans for change, or a movement for change?
07/22/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part XII - Did the AMA snooker the press?
07/22/09: Sen. Schumer, Meet Louise Russell - What’s this about preventative care saving money?
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