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Medicare: Where’s the evidence that vouchers save money?
The National Journal seeks some, and comes up empty
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 18, 2012 at 10:48 AM
Margot Sanger-Katz, a National Journal reporter who has been brave enough to question conventional wisdom surrounding health policy—she reported that... More
“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
EXTRA Unpacks the Media’s Medicare Coverage
Are journalists writing for doctors or for patients?
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 17, 2012 at 04:09 PM
I don’t know Amy Poe, a writer and Medicare consumer based in Little Rock, Arkansas. But I like a piece... More
New York Has Clarity on the Ryan Budget
By Joel Meares Apr 7, 2011 at 10:27 AM
A quick thank you to Dan Amira of New York magazine’s Daily Intel blog, who has published just the... More
The Wall Street Journal lets Paul Ryan go all but unchecked
Misleading claims get ignored or given he said-she said treatment
By Ryan Chittum Aug 31, 2012 at 11:07 AM
The Wall Street Journal's coverage of Paul Ryan's speech to the Republican National Convention Wednesday, which was packed with one... More
USA Today Touts the Government’s Good News on Medicare
But was it the full story?
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 6, 2012 at 11:57 AM
A few days ago USA Today trumpeted some health policy news: enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans is up and premiums... More
A Beat Memo on Medicare
Is the Ryan plan really so novel?
By Trudy Lieberman May 25, 2011 at 12:54 PM
Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In... More
A Grand Bargain on entitlements?
The press is sending signals about Simpson-Bowles. How about explaining it?
By Trudy Lieberman May 29, 2012 at 02:35 PM
To the average person, Nancy Pelosi’s May 20 interview with George Stephanopoulos probably seemed like standard procedure for a Sunday... More
A laurel to Jackie Calmes of The New York Times
She begins to X-ray the Romney/Ryan Medicare plan
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 24, 2012 at 04:04 PM
This week’s laurel goes to Jackie Calmes of The New York Times for reporting the increasing skepticism in health... More
A Medicare Memo to Campaign Reporters
Tailing Mitt on Medicare and Social Security, too
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 27, 2012 at 04:29 PM
Dear Colleagues: I have just returned from a reporting trip to Southeast Arkansas, where the folks I visited have very... 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 Medicare Referendum? Not So Fast
Polls in N.Y. special election tell a more complicated story
By Greg Marx May 16, 2011 at 03:52 PM
The future of Medicare is one of the biggest, most fiercely contested questions in American politics these days. And with... More
A Missing Medicare Link from The New York Times
Covering Medicare, Part II
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 27, 2011 at 12:13 PM
Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In... More
A Second Look at NY-26
New polls suggest a role for Medicare, but reasons for caution remain
By Greg Marx May 23, 2011 at 03:02 PM
A week ago, I called for more restraint in press coverage of tomorrow’s special election in NY-26, which the press... More
An election post-mortem on Medicare coverage
Coverage? Yes. Guidance? Not so much
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 15, 2012 at 01:12 PM
In mid-August, when Paul Ryan burst on the scene with his voucher scheme for Medicare, the 47-year old program suddenly... More
Ask Obama This: Will we have to be older to get Medicare?
We know about Romney’s vouchers, but the president is quiet on the subject of raising eligibility
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 26, 2012 at 06:51 AM
Over the final days of the campaign, CJR is running a series of pieces under the headline “Ask Obama This”... More
Backsliding on the ‘death panels’ myth
The need for caution—and avoiding “he said,” “she said”—in reporting on IPAB
By Brendan Nyhan May 10, 2013 at 11:53 AM
House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell released a letter on Thursday stating that they would not... More
Big Pharma’s army of messengers
A campaign to kill a drug discount
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 9, 2013 at 11:18 AM
As we report in a companion piece here on CJR.org--"Medicare uncovered: What's not on the table"--the president's budget proposal,... More
Candidate Pawlenty and Social Security
What’s he really talking about?
By Trudy Lieberman May 17, 2011 at 01:41 PM
Not long ago, presidential aspirant Tim Pawlenty sat down with reporters from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for a heart-to-heart about his... More
Challenging Newt’s Medicare Walkback
Choice is the least of Medicare’s problems
By Trudy Lieberman May 18, 2011 at 03:58 PM
Poor Newt Gingrich! What a beating he’s taken since he said on Meet the Press Sunday that Paul Ryan’s scheme... More
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Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
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