03/30/09: Baucus Watch, Part VII - Does he or doesn’t he support a public plan?
03/25/09: Insurers Have a New Idea - Is it really for real?
03/25/09: What Are Insurers Up To? - It depends on whose story you read
03/23/09: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part I - Critical analysis begins to trickle in
03/18/09: Laurel to The Philadelphia Inquirer - For parsing preexisting conditions
03/12/09: Time Offers Half a Loaf - Great health care story—but then what?
03/09/09: The Takeaway from the Health Care Summit - New euphemisms for the press to avoid
03/06/09: Baucus Watch, Part VI - The senator’s thoughts on financing health reform
03/06/09: Who Will Be at the Table? - Single-payer advocates are almost left off the invite list
03/05/09: Explaining COBRA - Let’s have some straight talk from the media
03/03/09: Wanted: More Skepticism at The New York Times - When the word “nonprofit” has a deeper meaning
03/02/09: Adieu, Medicare Advantage? - Another insurer gets in trouble
02/27/09: Where’s the Plan? - The media score well on their first-day budget stories
02/25/09: Mandating Health Coverage Makes a Comeback - The President and the man on the street
02/24/09: Divining Obama’s Health Care Budget - Early signals and the need for sharp eyes
02/20/09: Update on Medicare Advantage Plans - The administration’s unfinished business
02/19/09: A Laurel to the AP - For telling us who may not be at the table
02/17/09: The Stimulus Bill and Universal Coverage - The media are AWOL at the first skirmish
02/13/09: Dart to CNN - Who’s fact checking whom?
02/11/09: What the Stimulus Package Holds for Health Care - The devil indeed lurks in the details
02/09/09: Vetting Daschle’s Replacement - And the wisdom of the crowd
02/09/09: Excluded Voices - An interview with Timothy Jost, law professor at Washington and Lee University and author of Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement
02/06/09: Baucus Watch, Part V - Smoke signals—when exactly will health reform happen?
02/03/09: Who Will Be at the Table? - The hospitals begin to take their seats
02/02/09: Mr. Daschle and His Speaking Fees - What “policy advice” did he give to United Healthcare?
01/28/09: Laurel to The Oregonian - Health care miracles that aren’t
01/26/09: COBRA and Health Care Equity - It’s time for the press to connect some dots
01/23/09: Baucus Watch, Part IV - Lobbyists in white hats
01/20/09: Missing Children - The story behind the story on SCHIP
01/16/09: Dart to the Florida Health News Service - Whose side is it on, anyway?
01/14/09: WellPoint Gets in Trouble with Medicare - Journalists should jump on this story ASAP
01/12/09: A Headline Writer Gets Carried Away - A real plan, or a lot of sweet talk from Daschle and his Senate colleagues?
01/08/09: The TV Doc as Surgeon General - Whose interests will Sanjay Gupta promote?
01/07/09: Who Will Be at the Table? - The docs have escaped media scrutiny—so far
01/06/09: A Laurel to the AP - For exposing one of Medicare’s biggest holes
01/05/09: Report from the Tupperware Circuit, Part II - The public vents, the press takes notice
2008
12/23/08: Report from the Tupperware Circuit - A laurel to the Marion (Ohio) Star
12/22/08: Health Care Flashpoints - Whither the public plan option?
12/19/08: Who Will Be at the Table? - Special interest groups masquerade as ordinary citizens
12/18/08: Only in America - Insurance for the insured who become uninsured
12/15/08: Did the Press Hear What We Heard? - The media bury some important news on Obama’s health plan
12/09/08: Some Good Health Coverage at Local Papers - Laurels in El Paso, Dayton, and Colorado Springs
12/08/08: Who Will Be at the Table? - What lurks under the insurers’ gesture of friendship?
12/05/08: Conseco Redux - What lessons does the Pennsylvania insurance mess have for health reform?
12/03/08: Baucus Watch, Part III - Montana reporter digs deep into the senator’s white paper
11/24/08: Let’s Hear It for Penalizing the Uninsured - The Daily Oklahoman passes along some suggestions
11/20/08: Who Will Be at the Table? - Drug companies eye a large chair
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