“Tweaking” Health Reform

Who pays the price for the changes?

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 25, 2011 at 11:02 AM

Lost in MSM coverage of the president’s budget and hype over a government shutdown has been reportage about the various... More

A Big Omission at NBC

Whatever happened to Social Security?

By Trudy Lieberman   Mar 3, 2011 at 12:48 PM

NBC Nightly News took on retirement income the other day and found most Americans’s savings will come up short. The... More

A Good Social Security Story—At Last

Reuters shows it can be done

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 11, 2011 at 12:35 PM

Last week Reuters sent out a fine piece by Emily Kaiser that helped readers understand what the Social Security fight... More

A Medicare Miss at the LA Times

Some fact-checking, please

By Trudy Lieberman   Jul 18, 2011 at 02:33 PM

Medicare is a bear to write about. It’s tough for beneficiaries to understand, and unclear news stories only serve to... More

A Shout Out to David Gregory

For pinning down Eric Cantor on Meet the Press

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 25, 2011 at 01:00 PM

David Gregory’s Meet the Press interview Sunday with new House Majority Leader Eric Cantor should be required reading in every... More

Andrea Mitchell Crosses the Line

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 26, 2011 at 11:47 AM

NBC’s Andrea Mitchell was bummed out yesterday on her show, Andrea Mitchell Reports, when Melody Barnes, director of the White... More

Best of 2010: Trudy Lieberman

Lieberman picks her top stories from 2010

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 31, 2010 at 11:37 AM

Social Security in the Heartland series: All year the media ignored how “fixes” to Social Security pushed by political elites... More

Best of 2011: Trudy Lieberman

CJR’s health and entitlements reporter picks her top stories from the past year

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 2, 2012 at 05:48 PM

Peter G. Peterson Goes to School: Organizations funded by Peter G. Peterson, a former Wall Street investment banker and long-time... More

Chipping Away at Health Reform

Some not-so-great news for consumers

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 19, 2011 at 09:47 AM

The health reform law, aka the Affordable Care Act, took a hit last week. Many journos, though, were apparently snoozing.... More

Chipping Away at Health Reform, Part II

Ron Wyden’s lost program

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 20, 2011 at 10:08 AM

Throughout the health care debate, Oregon senator Ron Wyden worried whether Americans who will be required to buy health insurance... More

Covering Medicare Archive

A complete archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “Covering Medicare” articles

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 8, 2011 at 12:01 PM

This is an archive of Trudy Lieberman's "Covering Medicare" articles, presented in descending order. 08/15/12: Medicare, Paul Ryan, and beyond:... More

Death Panels Make a Comeback

And pose some larger questions for the press

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM

Well, what do you know? The Obama administration has resurrected the topic of death panels—or, as one Pennsylvania man called... More

Grandparent of the Chained CPI

Some stories never die

By Trudy Lieberman   Jul 28, 2011 at 02:54 PM

Sarah Cohen, a professor at the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke, and a one-time reporter for... More

Health Care Red Meat from Politico

Business writers, take note

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 18, 2011 at 12:26 PM

One of the most illuminating health care stories to come along in the last couple weeks was Politico’s take on... More

Hospital Safety Series

An archive of Trudy Lieberman’s recurring series on hospital safety

By Trudy Lieberman   Sep 2, 2010 at 03:36 PM

Here are the links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman's "Keeping an Eye on Hospital Safety" series, presented in descending... More

Jon Huntsman’s Vision for the Future of Medicare

Whose moral obligation is it?

By Trudy Lieberman   Jun 9, 2011 at 12:49 PM

Potential presidential candidate Jon Huntsman’s recent Wall Street Journal op-ed was thoroughly predictable, containing lots of the acceptable phrases for... More

Keeping an Eye on Hospital Safety, Part II

A shout-out to the Columbia Tribune

By Trudy Lieberman   Mar 10, 2011 at 04:14 PM

Slowly the public is coming to realize that hospitals are not always safe places. When the Institute of Medicine published... More

Keeping an Eye on Patient Safety, Part III

What we can learn from the Brits

By Trudy Lieberman   Jul 6, 2011 at 01:37 PM

Slowly the public is coming to realize that hospitals are not always safe places. Since the Institute of Medicine published... More

Kudos to Remapping Debate

A refreshing take on a long-legged health reform story

By Trudy Lieberman   May 2, 2011 at 09:59 AM

James Lardner deserves a loud shout-out for his piece about the movement—somewhat dormant until now—to make patients into consumers, meaning... More