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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged health coverage

1. January 31, 2012 11:15 AM

   A Laurel to The Record

   For a disturbing tale of sickness and medical expense

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Lindy Washburn’s piece in the Bergen Record about medical debt and how it can cripple even those people with health insurance offers a troubling preview of the future. The story should be required reading for health reporters and anyone else interested in the likely health care casualties even after the health reform law takes full effect in 2014. Washburn, who...

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2. March 22, 2012 04:16 PM

   Birthday Coverage for the Affordable Care Act

   The two faces of health reform

   By Trudy Lieberman

   The health reform law celebrates its two-year anniversary tomorrow. There are myriad ways to report on the Affordable Care Act and its sure-to-be-tumultuous future. Two stories showed up this week that illustrate two sides of health reform. The AP, which reaches zillions of ordinary people, reported—not surprisingly—on how the law has helped ordinary people. Politico, which reaches the Beltway types,...

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3. May 7, 2012 11:00 AM

   Healthcare: Do Americans get too much—or too little?

   A shout-out to Remapping Debate

   By Trudy Lieberman

   We’ve become accustomed of late to stories telling us we get too much healthcare. We get too much of the Three Ts—treatments, tests, and technology—which has become the dominant narrative in the ongoing tale of US healthcare spending. So it’s refreshing when a story comes along like the one last week from Remapping Debate that reported on those who get...

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4. May 10, 2012 11:42 AM

   How an anti-tax HIT squad employs the press

   "We’re pitching things and hope people run it. We’re not paying for ads”

   By Trudy Lieberman

   The small-business community has revved up its campaign to repeal a tax on insurance companies intended to help finance subsidies for the uninsured, a part of President Obama’s healthcare reform that would take effect in 2014. Congress expected the tax to raise some $87 billion over the 10 years the subsidies were funded. It is aimed at insurance carriers, but...

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5. July 11, 2012 02:58 PM

   Thomas Friedman’s fantasy America

   Not telling it like it is

   By Michael Massing

   Thomas Friedman was delighted by the Supreme Court’s recent decision to uphold the healthcare law. And he was positively thrilled with John Roberts. In a June 30 column for The New York Times (“Taking One for the Country”), Friedman praised the chief justice for his “legal creativity and courage.” Not only liberals, he wrote, but even some conservatives were touched...

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6. 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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