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Excluded Voices: Health Care Costs

An interview with Dr. Robert Berenson of the Urban Institute

During the health reform debate, we periodically presented Q and A interviews with health care experts whose voices were scarce.... More

Health Care in the Real World

A lesson for the fuzzy-headed bureaucrats—and for the press

Steve Luxenberg, an associate editor at The Washington Post, gives a different twist on covering high-deductible health plans, that new... More

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Healthcare and the profit motive—do they work well together?

Eduardo Porter asks a big question in the Times

It was refreshing to see Eduardo Porter, in his Economic Scene column last week in The New York Times, call... More

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Medicare Uncovered: the pain from ‘skin in the game’

A report puts a hole in the plan to make people pay more

This is the first of a series of occasional "Medicare Uncovered" posts that will look at how the media are... More

Poking Holes in the Massachusetts Mantra

The part of the story that the Times didn’t tell

Sunday’s New York Times piece comparing the records of GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Jon Huntsman on... More

The WSJ Is Excellent On Bad Doctors

Using a Medicare database to find outlying surgeons

The Wall Street Journal has been mining a massive Medicare database for an investigative series on Medicare—particularly its costs and... More

Missing Michael Hastings

One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write

Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies

Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him

Snowden versus the dragons

Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?

Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch

The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase

Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings

“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”

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