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11/18/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Jim Bean - What Social Security means to real people
11/16/10: The Education of Congressman-Elect Andy Harris - What does he know about health insurance?
11/12/10: Well, What Do You Know, Sherlock? - The media discover Social Security
11/11/10: The Education of Sen. Bennet - NPR passes along misinformation about Social Security
11/08/10: What Should John Boehner Do? - Kaiser asks the health cognoscenti
11/04/10: The Election Story Not Told - The irony of health reform
11/01/10: Medicare Beat Memo - What the campaign advertising missed
11/01/10: Setting the Record Straight on Campaign Ads - Who’s telling the truth about Medicare?
10/26/10: Social Security in Perspective, Part II - A conversation with Alicia Munnell
10/25/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Jennifer Putman - What Social Security means to real people
10/20/10: Health Care and the Massachusetts Governor’s Race - Kudos to WBUR
10/18/10: CBS Story Short but Not So Sweet - Skimpy info in the network’s take on retirement age
10/14/10: A Laurel to the Seattle Times - For investigating the state’s adult care homes
10/11/10: Another CJR Town Hall in the Badger State - Wisconsinites sound off about health reform and Social Security
10/05/10: Unintended Consequence Number 38 - The hospital big boys get bigger, too
10/05/10: Unintended Consequences - What the press should have known about health reform
10/01/10: A CJR Town Hall in the Badger State - Wisconsinites sound off about Russ Feingold
09/29/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Laurie Cooper - What Social Security means to real people
09/27/10: Distrust and Health Reform - The public smells a rat
09/23/10: Tracking the Tea Parties - Good work from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
09/16/10: CJR Holds a Town Meeting - Not everyone knows about health reform
09/14/10: A Rate Increase for James Windus - Where is the New York media?
09/14/10: Sebelius Watch, Part V - The war of words with insurers continues
09/10/10: Another Curious Omission - The Fiscal Times and Social Security
09/08/10: Some Curious Omissions - The New Yorker and Social Security
09/02/10: Keeping an Eye on Hospital Safety - A Laurel to the Las Vegas Sun
09/01/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Ronald Eaker - What Social Security means to real people
08/26/10: Alan Simpson Does it Again - This time the press pays attention—sort of
08/25/10: CJR Holds a Missouri Town Hall Meeting - Not many are wild about health reform
08/19/10: Those Social Security Code Words Again - The meaning behind the tweaks, privatization, and modest changes
08/17/10: More Codes in the Social Security War - WaPo unravels one and misses another
08/16/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Lonnie Judy - What Social Security means to real people
08/11/10: Food Stamps and Health - Let’s not forget the connection between the two
08/09/10: The Medicare Sales Job Moves Along - More media skepticism needed
08/06/10: Consumer Advice for Retirement Savings - What was the Times trying to tell us?
08/03/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Jennifer Tayabji - What Social Security means to real people
08/02/10: Hurray for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch - For puncturing the secrecy around doctors’ mistakes
07/30/10: Sebelius Watch, Part IV - The press falls for the bait
07/28/10: Kudos to The New York Times - For revealing the contradictions in health and financial reform
07/23/10: Paying Attention to Social Security - Two takes from the MSM
07/21/10: The Other Liz - Liz Fowler and the WellPoint connection
07/20/10: Social Security in Perspective - A conversation with Ted Marmor
07/13/10: A Fresh Take on Health Care - Does reform solve the ER problem?
07/08/10: Who Will Tell the People? - Social Security is the third rail for the MSM
07/07/10: The Passing of Dr. Robert Butler - And what he meant for journalists and journalism
06/30/10: A Tip of the Hat to The Oregonian - For finding health reform’s forgotten people
06/28/10: Welfare, Entitlements, and Sharron Angle - What sayeth she now?
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
02/12/10: Regulating Health Care, Part II - Anthem Blue Cross exposes the holes in rate regulation
02/10/10: Health Reform on C-SPAN - Is that really the issue?
02/08/10: Is Health Reform Dead or Alive? - Wanted: a newsmaker to give us the word
02/05/10: The Cost of Living - How cardiologists used the press
02/01/10: Reality Check at the NewsHour - Obama nationalizing health care? Hardly
01/28/10: A Path out of the Health Care Mess? - Still no guidance from the president
01/28/10: A Tale of Two Jonathans - Overusing sources and full disclosure—some lessons for the press
01/25/10: The Devil in the Details, Part V - The disabled still must wait for Medicare
01/22/10: Re-examining Massachusetts Health Care - Post-election comments from the MSM miss the boat
01/19/10: Health Care and the Massachusetts Senate Race - What’s bothering folks up there, anyway?
01/15/10: Who Was at the Table? - A clever lobbying tactic from the insurers
01/14/10: Regulating Health Care - Insurers and hospitals in Massachusetts snub the regulators
01/11/10: Stumbling over the Cadillac Plan Tax - Stephanopoulos tries; Romer fumbles
01/11/10: When Does a News Outlet Become a Press Agent? - Ben Nelson and the Fremont (Nebraska) Tribune
01/07/10: Kudos to The Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette - For localizing the great big health reform story
01/04/10: Dust-up at The Washington Post - And new questions about the new news services
01/04/10: Best of 2009: Trudy Lieberman - Lieberman picks her top stories from 2009
2009
12/23/09: Setting the Record Straight - The president, the press, and the public option
12/22/09: An Oops at USA Today - Exactly what was Ben Nelson’s position?
12/17/09: The Devil in the Details, Part IV - Who benefits from wellness incentives—an overweight colleague, your boss, insurers, or you?
12/15/09: Covering Joe - Is Lieberman a villain, or just taking care of the folks at home?
12/15/09: A Shout-out to the Associated Press - For exposing a big loophole in the health reform bill
12/14/09: The Next Most Underreported Health Reform Story - What will happen to SCHIP?
12/09/09: The Botox Beat - Using the press to fight a proposed tax on cosmetic surgery
12/08/09: What’s So Public about a Public Plan? - The language says it all
12/07/09: The Most Underreported Health Reform Story - And the senator from Nebraska
12/04/09: The Headlines Tell Us Everything - The Congressional Budget Office weighs in on premiums
12/03/09: Yes, Virginia, There Really Are Cost Controls - What miracle will bring down the price of medical care?
11/30/09: The Man in the Middle - What Jeremy Devor’s story tells us about health reform
11/25/09: Missing Persons Redux - Insuring those at the very bottom
11/24/09: The Devil in the Details, Part III - Do the House and Senate bills really count as insurance reform?
11/23/09: Ron Wyden Speaks Out - Straight talk on affordability from Oregon’s senior senator
11/18/09: Laurel to the Missoulian - For telling the human story of health reform
11/16/09: Missing Persons - How will reform affect ordinary folks?
11/13/09: Do Doctors Always Tell the Truth? - No, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
11/11/09: Infant Mortality, Abortion, and WellPoint’s Tonik Policy - It’s dot-connection time for the media
11/10/09: The Doctors and the Disabled - Have the doctors won on fee cuts?
11/10/09: The Disabled and the Doctors - People with disabilities will still have to wait for Medicare
11/05/09: The Price of Medical Services - Is the conversation finally starting?
11/04/09: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part IX - What does the public say?
11/02/09: The Devil in the Details, Part I - Who can afford health insurance after reform?
10/30/09: The Times Misses the Mark - A health care lobbyist puff piece that goes nowhere
10/27/09: Dr. Coca-Cola on Call - The king of Coke teams up with the family docs
10/26/09: Truth Emerges about the Public Option - Who really will be allowed to join?
10/26/09: The Latest News from Massachusetts - Obama comes to talk about energy, not health care
10/22/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part Seventeen - The docs are back for their piece of the pie
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?
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
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
11/18/08: Health Care Lessons From California - Arnold offers his wisdom on reform
11/17/08: Excluded Voices - An interview with Theodore Marmor, public policy and political science professor at Yale and expert on the politics of Medicare
11/13/08: Baucus Watch, Part II - What’s really inside the senator’s health-care white paper?
11/11/08: A Laurel to the Philadelphia Inquirer - And its excellent series showing the plight of the uninsured
11/10/08: Two New Story Lines for Health Care - A march to victory or a rollback of ambitions?
11/06/08: Huckabee on Health, Again - The preacher and his sermon
11/04/08: Baucus Watch - A key senator on health reform holds a listening session
11/03/08: Divining Medicare’s Future - CBS takes a crack at what’s in store for seniors
10/30/08: Health Care Rationing Explained - The Syracuse Post-Standard dares to widen the debate
10/27/08: Now Who’s Crafting a Secret Health Plan? - Is Ted Kennedy really proposing socialized medicine?
10/27/08: Paging Dr. Gupta - How CNN’s doc misdiagnosed McCain’s health plan
10/23/08: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tries to Redeem Itself - A better job on health care, but still a ways to go
10/20/08: Who’s Cutting What in Medicare? - A missing campaign issue suddenly surfaces
10/15/08: And Now From the Heartland…. - KOLN/KGIN tries to explain health care
10/14/08: Health Care on the Mississippi, Part IX - Real people and the candidates’ plans—some conclusions
10/13/08: Let the Crystal-Balling Begin - More red meat needed from the Associated Press
10/08/08: Dissecting the Health Care Debate - What the candidates said and didn’t say
10/07/08: Twelve Questions About Health Care for Tonight’s Debate - There’s more to talk about than taxing benefits
10/06/08: Who Will Do the Best Job on Health Care? - Neither candidate, say 40 percent of the voters. What gives?
10/06/08: Stephanopoulos Snoozes, Public Loses - How about a little help for your viewers, George?
10/03/08: Sarah Palin on Health Care - Media take note: How about a good game of connect-the-dots?
10/03/08: A Sensitive Look at the Uninsured - Health care documentary drives home the financial crisis
10/02/08: A Story That We’d Rather Not See - A cop-out at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
10/01/08: Health Care on the Mississippi, Part VIII - Glenn Hall represents everything that’s wrong with American health insurance
09/24/08: A Laurel to the Columbus Dispatch - A newspaper gets real with real people
09/22/08: Health Care on the Mississippi, Part VII - Living with Medicare for a long time
09/17/08: Health Care on the Mississippi, Part VI - Paying out-of-pocket means postponing necessary procedures
09/16/08: McCain Under the Microscope - A major news outlet takes a look at his health plan—finally!
09/11/08: Which Little Piggy Got Left Out? - What Elizabeth Edwards said about John McCain’s health plan
09/10/08: A Laurel To NPR - Strong coverage on health care issues
09/08/08: Health Care on the Mississippi, Part V - For the Hernandez women, diabetes runs in the family
09/08/08: Bad News, Bad Story - How about some clarity from the AP?
09/03/08: Dissing Elizabeth Edwards - The media miss the real story—her health care message
09/02/08: McCain Surrogates Take To The Press - Shame on the Dallas Morning News
08/28/08: Postscript on Harry and Louise - Health reform takeaways from the convention
08/26/08: The Obamas and the Chicago Hospital Controversy - What it really says about health care
08/25/08: Harry and Louise Are Back Again - But the media miss the important subtext
08/25/08: Health Care on the Mississippi, Part IV - You can’t win for losing when it comes to health care
08/21/08: Health Care on the Mississippi, Part III - Heart attacks, knee replacement, and sudden unemployment
08/15/08: Health Care on the Mississippi, Part II - An aging father and his diabetic son
08/15/08: Health Care on the Mississippi - Real people and the candidates’ plans, Part I
08/12/08: Unhealthy Alliances between Hospitals and TV Stations - SPJ award goes to a courageous news director
08/08/08: McCain’s Health Proposals Under the Microscope, Part V - Does he really have a way to control costs?
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?
03/11/08: McCain’s Health-Care Disconnect - Boasting about the U.S. system may not cut it anymore
03/06/08: Dude, Where’s My Health Care? - The AP blows it in a story about insurance for “slackers”
03/03/08: Accuracy in Truth Squading II - The Plain Dealer does it right
02/27/08: Teaching vs. Preaching - A glimmer of pedagogy in the Ohio debate: were the media learning?
02/25/08: Accuracy in Truth Squading - KTRK-TV’s truth meter needs recalibration
02/20/08: The Definition of Universal, Again - Ted Kennedy’s take on it
02/20/08: Impressive Coverage at the LA Times - Exposing warts in the health insurance market
02/15/08: Obama’s Lobbyist Line - A “more complicated truth” on campaign contributions
02/08/08: A Cautionary Tale for David Brooks and Others - What, really, was Jim Cooper’s “Clinton Lite?”
02/04/08: Harry and Louise Redux? - The media miss the point
02/01/08: Tax Credits Explained…Finally - The Salt Lake Tribune takes a deeper view
01/30/08: A Guide That Isn’t - Too much brevity at the Chronicle
01/23/08: Mitt’s Health Plan, Debunked - Why isn’t the press paying attention?
01/21/08: Health Care: Passing Along the Confusion - The Times unclarifies
01/18/08: Moving the Boundaries - A Pennsylvania paper dares to cover single payer
01/14/08: Health Care: Who Will Be at the Table? - Following the (insurance company) money
01/02/08: Medicare Mystery - Why the conspiracy of silence?
2007
12/19/07: Deception in Des Moines - The Register’s Media Watch might want to check the mirror
12/12/07: Huckabee on Health - How about some details, Mike?
12/07/07: A Health Care Mirage - How candidates (and reporters) misuse the word “universal”
11/27/07: The New Health-Care Debate - Interview with NPR health policy reporter Julie Rovner
11/27/07: Romney Talks Tough on Health Care - But what’s he really saying?
11/21/07: Rudy’s Unhealthy Stats - Some good reporting holds Giuliani’s phony cancer numbers at bay
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