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A Laurel to The Record
For a disturbing tale of sickness and medical expense
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 31, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Lindy Washburn’s piece in the Bergen Record about medical debt and how it can cripple even those people with health... More
Bad Omens for Health Care
Mixed coverage of the latest premium hikes
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 3, 2011 at 12:38 PM
The big news in health care last week was, of course, that average annual premiums for family coverage through employers... More
Birthday Coverage for the Affordable Care Act
The two faces of health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 22, 2012 at 04:16 PM
The health reform law celebrates its two-year anniversary tomorrow. There are myriad ways to report on the Affordable Care Act... More
Brill’s big breakthrough
A Time manifesto on healthcare costs smashes fences that have constricted this conversation for far too long
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 5, 2013 at 02:58 PM
Steven Brill's taboo-busting X-ray of the US medical system, "Bitter Pill," has a chance to reframe the way we... More
Deep Health Care Problems under Rick Perry’s Watch
Deep in the heart of Texas
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 14, 2011 at 12:01 PM
With the media hyper-focused on Texas governor Rick Perry’s not-too-flattering comments about Social Security, health care in his state seems... More
Good Work from the Times on Rate Increases
Shedding light on insurance company secrets
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 14, 2011 at 09:00 AM
Proving that not every story has to be a zillion words long or analyze a zillion data points to break... More
Health Reform and the Supreme Court: Day Two
Press coverage focuses on the individual mandate
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 28, 2012 at 01:40 PM
There was one near-universal takeaway from Day Two of oral arguments before the Supreme Court: The requirement that almost all... More
Incredible shrinking insurance co-ops
Congress gives a gift to the insurance companies. Time for the press to take note
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 29, 2013 at 11:02 AM
When negotiators wrapped up their fiscal cliff negotiations, among the quiet casualties were insurance co-ops, which had been hailed... More
Is Buying Health Insurance Like Shopping on Amazon?
No sirreeee, says WBUR
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 13, 2012 at 01:12 PM
On Monday, the AP reported that, as part of its health reform efforts, the federal government would require states to... More
Legal Immigrants Win in Massachusetts
But the political press misses the story
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 16, 2012 at 12:34 PM
Today we begin a series of occasional posts that bring Campaign Desk readers up-to-date on the workings of Massachusetts health... More
Meet the Bay State’s Uninsured
The national media pass on an important story
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 26, 2011 at 02:26 PM
Last week the Census Bureau released new numbers showing that 5.6 percent of the population in Massachusetts remained without health... More
Obamacare and the business angle: innovative coverage
A tip of the hat to Inc. and The New York Times
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 3, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Inc.'s Adam Bluestein and Julie Weed of The New York Times have come up with an interesting way of covering... More
Stories I’d Like to See
Scoring healthcare insurers and getting campaign spending right
By Steven Brill Feb 21, 2012 at 11:32 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
Stories I’d Like to See
Cable conflicts, BlackBerry’s demise, and China’s millionaires
By Steven Brill Apr 3, 2012 at 11:47 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
The Big Boys: An affordability puzzle
Healthcare Insurers push a one-sided meme, and the press runs with it
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 25, 2013 at 03:00 PM
During the long debate over health reform, one issue barely discussed was whether the Americans who would be required... More
The Case of the Missing Premium
Transparency for health insurance?
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 16, 2012 at 01:44 PM
The Department of Health and Human Services recently announced that health insurers and employers must provide more information to consumers... More
The Education of Congressman-Elect Andy Harris
What does he know about health insurance?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 16, 2010 at 12:33 PM
Politico published a rather astonishing story yesterday that should make the constituents of Maryland’s first congressional district scratch their heads... More
The failure to explain health reform
The public doesn’t understand it. Whose fault is that?
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 20, 2012 at 06:51 AM
If the Supreme Court rules the health reform law or its central feature—the individual mandate requiring people to have health... More
WellPoint Raises Rates Again
And the national press looks the other way
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 6, 2012 at 12:24 PM
Anthem Blue Cross—a subsidiary of WellPoint, the country’s second largest insurer—and its 39 percent rate increase in California became somewhat... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
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