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A Hospital Story Not to Write
Doing the digging for real news
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 11, 2011 at 01:43 PM
My Association of Health Care Journalists colleague Charlie Ornstein likes to say that stories about hospital ribbon-cuttings, wings named for... More
Health costs: Is Mass. the only model?
What about Vermont? (Not to mention Maryland)
By Trudy Lieberman May 15, 2012 at 03:19 PM
We all know Obamacare is Romneycare and Romneycare is Obamacare and that the Bay State has set the standard for... 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
Mitt and the Mandate
Whose paternity is it, anyway?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 26, 2012 at 06:14 PM
No matter what decision comes from the Supreme Court, which began hearing arguments Monday on the constitutionality of the Affordable... More
Perry Misleads on RomneyCare
Socialized medicine, really?
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 19, 2011 at 01:08 PM
It's becoming clear that Rick Perry has never met a buzzword he doesn’t like. We’ve heard that Social Security is... More
Poking Holes in the Massachusetts Mantra
The part of the story that the Times didn’t tell
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 8, 2011 at 03:51 PM
Sunday’s New York Times piece comparing the records of GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Jon Huntsman on... More
Romney and His Health Care Plan
Does he or doesn’t he like what he did?
By Trudy Lieberman May 13, 2011 at 02:26 PM
It would seem that the press coverage of Mitt Romney’s health care speech in Michigan yesterday was greater than media... More
Romney on Romneycare is a Bust
Conservatives are not buying Mitt’s Michigan speech
By Joel Meares May 13, 2011 at 02:57 PM
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took to a stage in Ann Arbor yesterday to twist and turn his way through... More
Romney on the Stump
Health care’s not my baby, he says
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 8, 2011 at 02:04 PM
Mitt Romney has come out swinging against the health care plan he helped create, tackling the issue head on during... More
The brave new world of health insurance exchanges
It’s time to take a look at how they are working in Massachusetts and beyond
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 18, 2012 at 11:05 AM
New York Times reporter Abby Goodnough’s piece last week about the health insurance exchange in Massachusetts is instructive—especially since other... More
The Massachusetts Disconnect
Another health reform lesson from the Bay State
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 26, 2011 at 03:27 PM
Much of the national press took a pass last week on another important “study says” story out of Massachusetts. This... More
The Return of Socialized Medicine
Mike Huckabee resurrects the bogeyman
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 28, 2011 at 02:42 PM
Mike Huckabee, presumed presidential aspirant, is preaching the gospel of socialized medicine by attacking the Massachusetts reform law, of all... More
The word on the street: Divided
Massachusetts voters talk about Medicare, and their Senate race
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 1, 2012 at 03:26 PM
Last week I journeyed up to New England to see what voters thought of the debate over Medicare, for another... More
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The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
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