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1. September 18, 2012 10:48 AM

   Medicare: Where’s the evidence that vouchers save money?

   The National Journal seeks some, and comes up empty

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Margot Sanger-Katz, a National Journal reporter who has been brave enough to question conventional wisdom surrounding health policy—she reported that elements of the Affordable Care Act “designed to lower costs will likely raise them instead”—has now taken a hard look at the claims and rhetoric sloshing around about vouchers lowering the government’s Medicare bill. She asked a reasonable question, one...

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2. May 24, 2011 08:11 PM

   Audit Notes: Insider Trading on the Hill, Taibbi, Deficit vs. Jobs Coverage

   By Ryan Chittum

   Dan Froomkin of The Huffington Post reports on some very interesting research finding that the investment portfolios of members of Congress substantially outperform the stock market. I'd expect their portfolios to do a bit better than the market average, but the study found Congress beat the stock market by an average 6 percent a year over sixteen years. Senators beat...

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3. March 1, 2011 12:24 PM

   How a Defense Contract Is Won

   NYT's Boeing report left out the lobbying

   By Liz Cox Barrett

   You're a giant aerospace company pursuing a defense contract potentially worth $100 billion: so, what's your lobbying budget for that? A tip of the hat to the National Journal for detailing for readers how a years-long battle between Boeing and European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) for a lucrative contract to supply the Air Force with aerial refueling tankers...

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4. October 18, 2012 11:30 AM

   Laurels to Politico and National Journal

   For exposing the shady side of the campaign-industrial complex

   By Greg Marx

   Back in April, an excellent column by Walter Shapiro here at CJR urged reporters on the money-in-politics beat to display some “skepticism about the self-interested role of political insiders and campaign consultants in ballyhooing the merits of unlimited campaign spending”—both to maintain some perspective about how much that spending does to decide elections and to uphold “the rights of...

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5. June 9, 2011 02:24 PM

   Pawlenty’s Economic Fantasy

   A mixed showing from the press as the GOP contender sets out his plan

   By Greg Marx

   In his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty has tried to cast himself as a no-nonsense, straight-shooting expert on fiscal matters. Pawlenty trotted out that line again in his big speech on economic policy Tuesday, declaring that he had “promised to level with the American people. To look them in the eye. And tell them...

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6. March 29, 2011 02:07 PM

   Sims: White House Edition

   By Joel Meares

   The National Journal has news graphics lovers oooing and ahhing today with an impressive interactive map of the West Wing. A 3D rendering that looks not unlike an environment in which your Sims avatar might install a Jacuzzi, the graphic allows users to hover over rooms to see their use and who occupies them. That tiny office near the first...

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7. February 22, 2012 02:22 PM

   What We’re Learning About Hospitals, Part One

   A laurel to National Journal

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Beware the Affordable Care Act! That was the message of a fine National Journal piece that thoroughly investigated the current economics of the nation’s hospitals. Stories about economics—especially those that go deep—are always tough to do, and reporter Margot Sanger-Katz put it all together, lacing her piece with plenty of warnings about what health reform will and won’t do. The...

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