08/05/08: Are the Dems Wimping Out? - Platform leaves wide open space for the special interests
08/01/08: McCain’s Health Proposals Under a Microscope, Part IV - Selling insurance across state lines: cheaper premiums or skimpy benefits?
07/29/08: Comparing Ohio and Ontario by the Numbers - The Beacon Journal points to better health stats in Canada
07/25/08: Battle For the Grassroots - Campaign for an American Solution vs. Health Care for America Now
07/24/08: McCain’s Health Proposals Under the Microscope, Part III - How will the sick obtain coverage?
07/18/08: McCain’s Health Proposals Under the Microscope, Part II - Who’s making the medical decisions, anyway?
07/14/08: McCain’s Health Proposals Under the Microscope - Ending employer-based insurance as we know it?
07/11/08: One Step Forward, One Step Back - The AP gets it right on universal coverage, but new code words loom
07/08/08: Where Have All the Doctors Gone? - Finding out would make a good story for the summer lull
07/07/08: Memo To Health Care Reporters - Explain what the terms “national” and “universal” really mean, and what Obama’s plan really does
07/03/08: At Last: A Good, Issue-Driven Health Care Story - The Catholic Courier makes things clear for readers
07/01/08: Please, ABC, Tell Us What This Story Is About - Another Obama flip-flop? Or just a plan that insurers will support?
06/27/08: More Questions About Massachusetts Health Care - And some fine coverage from the State House News Service
06/24/08: Grassroots Support for Single Payer - Some in the media find their rallies worthy of coverage
06/19/08: A Tale of Two Visions — For Health Reform - McClatchy newspapers miss the story line
06/17/08: The High Cost of Health Care - Do journalists deserve some of the blame?
06/16/08: On Health Care, a Warning from the States - Big talk of reform dried up in the legislatures
06/12/08: Turning Point: Health Care - He said/she said is bad medicine. Time to dive into analysis
06/09/08: How Not to Cover a Speech - In health care, challenge the bromides
06/04/08: Inside the Insurers’ Bag of Tricks - Two newspapers take a hard look
05/27/08: Watch the Democrats, Part II - The Hill’s skeptical story still stands
05/21/08: No More “Socialized Medicine” — Part II - The New York Times gets it right, too
05/19/08: Do Dems Want Health-Care Reform? - Some hedging in the halls of Congress
05/15/08: No More “Socialized Medicine”—at least from the AP - One loaded term down, many to go
05/13/08: Dick Cheney’s Health Care - Good enough for you? Moyers raises the equity question
05/12/08: About Those Holes in Your Health Policy - As campaigns discuss the uninsured, the insured have their own problems
05/08/08: The World’s Best Health Care—Really? - John McCain’s campaign canard
05/01/08: McCain’s Health-Care Muddle - What’s he doing? Don’t ask the media
04/30/08: Missing: Single-Payer in Pennsylvania - What David Brancaccio, and the rest of the press, left out
04/25/08: Health Reform and the Single Girl - A fresh take on the candidate’s health care ideas—from Glamour
04/22/08: Memo to McCain: Dems Are Not Calling for Government Health Care - Stephanopoulos tries (unsuccessfully) to set the record straight
04/18/08: McCain’s Quiet Medicare Bombshell - Privatizing Medicare one inch at a time
04/16/08: $17 Million a Day to Influence Congress - Health interests dole out the dough to get their way
04/14/08: The Forgotten Health Issue - Why is no one talking about long-term care?
04/08/08: Globe Dissects McCain’s Health Plan - More questions raised than answered
04/07/08: Hillary’s Bad Facts - How should the press handle a health care stumble?
04/03/08: Looking Under Hillary’s Caps - On health care costs, readers need help with the fine print
04/01/08: Elizabeth Edwards on John McCain’s Health Policy - Someone has to translate
03/26/08: A Health Care Conversation Opener - A North Carolina blogger cuts through the chaff
03/25/08: The Missing Genre - How do the candidates’ plans affect ordinary folk?
03/18/08: Good Angle on the Drug Industry - The Washington Post connects some dots
03/17/08: “Socialized Medicine” R.I.P. - Who’s afraid of the big, bad bogeyman?
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