07/21/09: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part IV - The new math, or maybe it’s the old
07/20/09: Gregory A+; Sebelius D- - NBC’s David Gregory bores down on Madame Secretary
07/17/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part XI - Center for Medicine in the Public Interest fights against a public plan
07/14/09: Hospital Disconnect - USA Today offers news you can use, but a little more context, please
07/13/09: Health Care in France—and in America - A journalist’s observations
06/30/09: Memo to Sen. Barbara Boxer—and Journalists, Too - More skepticism about savings from preventive care, please
06/29/09: Health Care Flashpoints, Part III - Taxing insurance benefits and health care equity
06/24/09: Excluded Voices - An interview with Wendell Potter, former head of corporate communications for CIGNA, the country’s fourth-largest insurer
06/23/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part X - We finally hear from the business community
06/22/09: What Journalists Can Learn from Celinda Lake - Wisdom from the Democrats’ wordsmith
06/19/09: Baucus Watch, Part XI - The first glimpse of what he has brought forth
06/16/09: Cost Savings Myopia - Making the numbers fit the script
06/16/09: Excluded Voices - An interview with Louise Russell, research professor at Rutgers and an expert on preventative care
06/15/09: Stephanopoulos A-; Sebelius D - George bests the Secretary of Health and Human Services
06/12/09: Health Care Flashpoints, Part II - The individual mandate—when journalism becomes a lobbying tool
06/10/09: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part III - Rapidly rising medical costs jeopardize the state’s insurance miracle
06/08/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part IX - PhRMA and the AMA join forces with insurers
06/05/09: Postscript on Single Payer - The San Francisco Chronicle offers some respectability
06/02/09: What a Young Reporter Learned from the UAW - Lessons about health care and other matters
06/01/09: Baucus Watch, Part X - Disagreements surface among the Dems
05/29/09: What the Heck Do the Senators Mean? - More clues about a public plan
05/22/09: Single-Payer Advocates Finally Get Their Say - Montana papers lead the way
05/21/09: Excluded Voices - An interview with Jonathan Oberlander, health policy expert and professor of social medicine and health policy & management at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
05/18/09: Where Will the Money Come From Redux - Maybe not from us, say health care special interests
05/15/09: Where Will the Money Come From? - And who will be left out of health reform?
05/13/09: Baucus Watch, Part IX - The senator ejects single-payer advocates—again
05/12/09: Will Health Care Providers Really Reduce Spending? - The press exhibits some skepticism—but more is needed
05/11/09: What Journalists Can Learn from Frank Luntz - Wisdom from the Republican wordsmith
05/08/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part VII - WellPoint brings forth voices from the grassroots
05/07/09: Memo to Journalists: Move Beyond the Beltway Babble - Men (and women) on the street are foggy about health reform
05/04/09: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part II - Does an individual mandate work? Depends on who’s talking
04/30/09: Baucus Watch, Part VIII - What kind of public plan is the senator talking about?
04/28/09: A Laurel to the Eagle-Tribune - Paper gets Astroturfed and smells a rat
04/24/09: A Dart to the Buffalo News - Paper confuses Medicare Advantage news with insurance marketing tactics
04/22/09: Who Will Be at the Table? - WellPoint brings forth voices from the grassroots
04/14/09: 60 Minutes and The Nation Shine on Health Care - Two good stories that expose health care’s holes
04/13/09: Hiding the Messenger - What’s Lewin’s pedigree anyway?
04/10/09: Laurel to the Tampa Tribune - For adding a fresh dimension to the Medicare Advantage story
04/08/09: Excluded Voices - An interview with Marilyn Moon, vice president of the American Institutes for Research and a former trustee of the Medicare system
04/06/09: Obama AWOL on Health Reform? - Times tackles the President’s “light touch”
04/01/09: Sick Around America - What exactly was Frontline trying to say?
03/30/09: Some Big Dots to Connect - Which could tell who really will pay for health reform
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