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1. April 7, 2011 10:27 AM

   New York Has Clarity on the Ryan Budget

   By Joel Meares

   A quick thank you to Dan Amira of New York magazine’s Daily Intel blog, who has published just the dummies guide to Paul Ryan’s budget proposal that we asked for early in the week—okay, Amira called it “the Absolute Moron’s Guide.” The piece is written as a Q&A with a savvy but clueless questioner and a befuddled but informative...

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2. October 26, 2012 06:51 AM

   Ask Obama This: Will we have to be older to get Medicare?

   We know about Romney’s vouchers, but the president is quiet on the subject of raising eligibility

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Over the final days of the campaign, CJR is running a series of pieces under the headline “Ask Obama This” and “Ask Romney This,” suggesting themes and questions that reporters and pundits can put to the presidential candidates. So far we’ve asked President Obama about his short term jobs plan and about housing, and Africa, among other things, and asked...

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3. May 17, 2011 01:41 PM

   Candidate Pawlenty and Social Security

   What’s he really talking about?

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Not long ago, presidential aspirant Tim Pawlenty sat down with reporters from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for a heart-to-heart about his policy positions. The interview covered everything from from Libya to health care. (We know where he stands on that last one). He talked of his personal battles with the Minnesota legislature and said “you’ve got to draw some lines in...

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4. July 3, 2012 03:03 PM

   Climbing the Medicaid mountain

   The press is starting to master the policy angles. Now for the people

   By Trudy Lieberman

   The Affordable Care Act envisions a major expansion of health insurance in America, with some 30 million Americans gaining coverage. That figure includes some 17 million people with low incomes who were to get health insurance via an expansion of Medicaid eligibility. With eligibility raised—from 100 percent of the poverty level to 133 percent—many states will enlarge their Medicaid rolls...

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5. March 9, 2011 10:38 AM

   Conflating Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid

   By Ryan Chittum

   Meanwhile, while we're pointing out games journalists play and the question of whether Social Security is welfare, WaPo's Robert J. Samuelson says this:

 In a recent column on the senior citizen lobby, I noted that Social Security is often "middle-class welfare" that bleeds the country. This offended many readers. In an e-mail, one snarled: "Social Security is not adding one...

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6. February 14, 2012 11:47 AM

   Don Berwick, Press Critic

   Observations from Medicare’s former top guy

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Don Berwick, something of a folk hero to journos covering health care, had a heart-to-heart with the Association of Health Care Journalists the other day, and the story deserves a close read. The idea apparently was to vent about his short tenure heading the vast agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid. Berwick, you may recall, had a recess appointment from...

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7. September 24, 2012 06:51 AM

   Eureka! The media discovers Medicaid

   And why that matters to the middle class

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Ah Medicaid! What can we say about it? Until the last couple of weeks, the press has said almost nothing. It’s not sexy; not fun to write about. It affects poor people who don’t bring in traffic. And it can get us tangled in the weeds pretty fast. But lately we’re on the case. Perhaps one reason is Bill Clinton’s...

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8. September 1, 2011 01:17 PM

   Golden Teeth

   Dallas’s WFAA shows crooked Medicaid spending on orthodontia

   By Trudy Lieberman

   These days it’s rare for local TV stations to produce anything resembling an expose. With their steady diet of crime, weather, and canned medical news, there just isn’t room for the hard reporting. WFAA, the ABC affiliate in Dallas, has earned a reputation as a notable exception. Throughout the summer, the station and its investigative reporter Byron Harris have taken...

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9. August 15, 2012 03:25 PM

   Medicare, Paul Ryan, and beyond: a primer

   Here’s context to clarify the big entitlements debates

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Mitt Romney’s choice of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential nominee elevates Medicare and Medicaid (along with Social Security) to Level A campaign issues. Ryan has emerged as a leading Congressional thinker and idea shaper for the GOP on fiscal matters, and his path cuts right through Medicare and Medicaid. Consider the scale: Last year the Congressional Budget...

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10. April 4, 2011 01:29 PM

    Ryan’s Whopper $4 Trillion

    Where it will come from and what it might mean

    By Joel Meares

    House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) visited Fox News Sunday this weekend and confirmed last week’s reporting suggesting a GOP budget proposal released tomorrow would strike a blow to Medicare. The 2012 budget proposal, Ryan said, would exceed the recommendations of the president’s fiscal commission and cut $4 trillion from the federal budget over the next decade. Medicare and...

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11. February 18, 2011 11:15 AM

    The Budget Narrative

    The press goes astray on Social Security

    By Trudy Lieberman

    For most of last year and so far into this one, the media has passed along the narrative that Social Security is a major cause of the nation’s deficit and it, along with other entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid, needs a good hair cut. The president’s now-defunct deficit commission and assorted deficit hawks peddled that notion so vigorously that it...

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12. August 2, 2011 01:34 PM

    The Deficit Deal Defined

    Is Medicare really safe?

    By Trudy Lieberman

    Presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett chatted with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC yesterday as part of a sales job for the deficit deal that smacked of the White House marketing campaign after health reform passed. “I think we are going to see a great deal of support” for the bill once the details are fully explained to lawmakers and the public, she...

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