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11/18/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Jim Bean – What Social Security means to real people
11/16/10: The Education of Congressman-Elect Andy Harris – What does he know about health insurance?
11/12/10: Well, What Do You Know, Sherlock? – The media discover Social Security
11/11/10: The Education of Sen. Bennet – NPR passes along misinformation about Social Security
11/08/10: What Should John Boehner Do? – Kaiser asks the health cognoscenti
11/04/10: The Election Story Not Told – The irony of health reform
11/01/10: Medicare Beat Memo – What the campaign advertising missed
11/01/10: Setting the Record Straight on Campaign Ads – Who’s telling the truth about Medicare?
10/26/10: Social Security in Perspective, Part II – A conversation with Alicia Munnell
10/25/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Jennifer Putman – What Social Security means to real people
10/20/10: Health Care and the Massachusetts Governor’s Race – Kudos to WBUR
10/18/10: CBS Story Short but Not So Sweet – Skimpy info in the network’s take on retirement age
10/14/10: A Laurel to the Seattle Times – For investigating the state’s adult care homes
10/11/10: Another CJR Town Hall in the Badger State – Wisconsinites sound off about health reform and Social Security
10/05/10: Unintended Consequence Number 38 – The hospital big boys get bigger, too
10/05/10: Unintended Consequences – What the press should have known about health reform
10/01/10: A CJR Town Hall in the Badger State – Wisconsinites sound off about Russ Feingold
09/29/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Laurie Cooper – What Social Security means to real people
09/27/10: Distrust and Health Reform – The public smells a rat
09/23/10: Tracking the Tea Parties – Good work from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
09/16/10: CJR Holds a Town Meeting – Not everyone knows about health reform
09/14/10: A Rate Increase for James Windus – Where is the New York media?
09/14/10: Sebelius Watch, Part V – The war of words with insurers continues
09/10/10: Another Curious Omission – The Fiscal Times and Social Security
09/08/10: Some Curious Omissions – The New Yorker and Social Security
09/02/10: Keeping an Eye on Hospital Safety – A Laurel to the Las Vegas Sun
09/01/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Ronald Eaker – What Social Security means to real people
08/26/10: Alan Simpson Does it Again – This time the press pays attention—sort of
08/25/10: CJR Holds a Missouri Town Hall Meeting – Not many are wild about health reform
08/19/10: Those Social Security Code Words Again – The meaning behind the tweaks, privatization, and modest changes
08/17/10: More Codes in the Social Security War – WaPo unravels one and misses another
08/16/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Lonnie Judy – What Social Security means to real people
08/11/10: Food Stamps and Health – Let’s not forget the connection between the two
08/09/10: The Medicare Sales Job Moves Along – More media skepticism needed
08/06/10: Consumer Advice for Retirement Savings – What was the Times trying to tell us?
08/03/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Jennifer Tayabji – What Social Security means to real people
08/02/10: Hurray for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch – For puncturing the secrecy around doctors’ mistakes
07/30/10: Sebelius Watch, Part IV – The press falls for the bait
07/28/10: Kudos to The New York Times – For revealing the contradictions in health and financial reform
07/23/10: Paying Attention to Social Security – Two takes from the MSM
07/21/10: The Other Liz – Liz Fowler and the WellPoint connection
07/20/10: Social Security in Perspective – A conversation with Ted Marmor
07/13/10: A Fresh Take on Health Care – Does reform solve the ER problem?
07/08/10: Who Will Tell the People? – Social Security is the third rail for the MSM
07/07/10: The Passing of Dr. Robert Butler – And what he meant for journalists and journalism
06/30/10: A Tip of the Hat to The Oregonian – For finding health reform’s forgotten people
06/28/10: Welfare, Entitlements, and Sharron Angle – What sayeth she now?
06/25/10: The Docs and the Press – What a little help from their friends will do
06/21/10: More Words of Wisdom from Alan Simpson – Just who are the “lesser people” he had in mind?
06/18/10: A Laurel to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – For keeping the spotlight on the doctors’ shenanigans
06/16/10: Are All Americans Living Longer? – CNBC didn’t ask the right questions
06/14/10: Of Death Panels and Rationing – Don Berwick’s messy confirmation
06/10/10: Sebelius Watch, Part III – Schizophrenia over Medicare Advantage plans
06/08/10: The Small Business Angle, Part II – The Boston Globe discovers the fine print
06/07/10: The Small Business Angle – A gutsy piece from Colorado Public Radio
06/02/10: Another Take on the Times’s Memphis Piece – And the Social Security Connection
06/01/10: What Congress Giveth, It Also Taketh Away – Farewell COBRA extensions?
05/27/10: Secrecy at the Deficit Commission – Note to the media: It’s past time for a little sunshine here
05/25/10: William Greider on Social Security – A superb take on Obama’s deficit commission
05/24/10: Good Coverage at USA Today – Some smart takes on problems with health and financial reform
05/05/10: Everyone Knows the Troubles They’ve Seen – The press pays attention to WellPoint
04/30/10: More Words of Wisdom from Alan Simpson – Geezers vs. Gen X-ers vs. millenials, etc, etc.
04/28/10: Rick Foster’s Predictions – No bending of the cost curve in his crystal ball
04/26/10: Sebelius Watch, Part II – Will Madame Secretary rule with moral suasion?
04/21/10: The Midnight Ride of George Pataki – Who’s behind the ex-gov’s health repeal crusade?
04/19/10: Merrill Goozner on Tom Friedman – Why health care costs so much
04/16/10: Sebelius Watch – Does the administration want to make seniors wait longer for Medicare?
04/15/10: Bad News for Ben Nelson? – The Cornhusker Kickback still grates on Nebraskans
04/13/10: Finishing The Treatment – The New Republic ends its health care blog
04/12/10: The Devil in the Details, Part VIII – What’s really in store for seniors on Medicare?
04/07/10: The White House vs. the Associated Press – Is talking to the insurance industry off limits?
04/05/10: The Best-Covered News Story, Ever? – Does The New Republic live on Mars?
03/30/10: Laurel to Denver’s Westword – For explaining how insurance companies behave
03/30/10: The Devil in the Details, Part VII – Can insurers still dump you when you get sick?
03/26/10: At Last, the Press Discovers the Consumer Story – How will health reform affect you and me?
03/23/10: Bob Reich on the What-It-All Means Question – No paw prints of the Great Society here
03/22/10: A P.S. on WellPoint – Deconstructing the insurer’s grassroots campaign
03/22/10: The Meaning of Those CBO Numbers – Smoke and mirrors and the doctor fix
03/19/10: Social Security’s Code Words – Erskine Bowles takes the stage
03/17/10: Parsing the AP’s Health Care Primer – Its attempt at informing falls short
03/16/10: The President Pushes against Waste, Fraud, and Abuse – But what do those terms really mean?
03/15/10: Is the Past Prologue? – The pedigree of Alan Simpson
03/11/10: Medicare Kicks Out Fox Insurance – And therein lie some lessons for the press
03/10/10: What Was Sebelius Saying? – David Gregory didn’t probe too deeply
03/08/10: Regulating Health Care, Part III – When is an insurance company too small to cover?
03/03/10: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part X – Unintended consequences for low-income workers
03/01/10: The Cost of Living, Part III – Are the docs really going to drop their patients?
02/25/10: Takeaway from the Summit – Decoding what was said during yesterday’s health care reform meeting
02/25/10: The Cost of Living, Part II – A shout-out to the San Francisco Chronicle
02/22/10: CJR Holds a Town Hall Meeting – And finds a cross-section of public opinion on health reform
02/22/10: Sebelius Discovers More Rate Increases – And the press finally takes note
02/19/10: The Anthem Saga Revisited – What exactly was the Times trying to tell us?
02/17/10: On the Social Security Battlefront – Reporters and their sources
02/15/10: The Devil in the Details, Part VI – Needed: a health care primer for Fox News
02/12/10: Regulating Health Care, Part II – Anthem Blue Cross exposes the holes in rate regulation
02/10/10: Health Reform on C-SPAN – Is that really the issue?
02/08/10: Is Health Reform Dead or Alive? – Wanted: a newsmaker to give us the word
02/05/10: The Cost of Living – How cardiologists used the press
02/01/10: Reality Check at the NewsHour – Obama nationalizing health care? Hardly
01/28/10: A Path out of the Health Care Mess? – Still no guidance from the president
01/28/10: A Tale of Two Jonathans – Overusing sources and full disclosure—some lessons for the press
01/25/10: The Devil in the Details, Part V – The disabled still must wait for Medicare
01/22/10: Re-examining Massachusetts Health Care – Post-election comments from the MSM miss the boat
01/19/10: Health Care and the Massachusetts Senate Race – What’s bothering folks up there, anyway?
01/15/10: Who Was at the Table? – A clever lobbying tactic from the insurers
01/14/10: Regulating Health Care – Insurers and hospitals in Massachusetts snub the regulators
01/11/10: Stumbling over the Cadillac Plan Tax – Stephanopoulos tries; Romer fumbles
01/11/10: When Does a News Outlet Become a Press Agent? – Ben Nelson and the Fremont (Nebraska) Tribune
01/07/10: Kudos to The Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette – For localizing the great big health reform story
01/04/10: Dust-up at The Washington Post – And new questions about the new news services
01/04/10: Best of 2009: Trudy Lieberman – Lieberman picks her top stories from 2009
2009
12/23/09: Setting the Record Straight – The president, the press, and the public option
12/22/09: An Oops at USA Today – Exactly what was Ben Nelson’s position?
12/17/09: The Devil in the Details, Part IV – Who benefits from wellness incentives—an overweight colleague, your boss, insurers, or you?
12/15/09: Covering Joe – Is Lieberman a villain, or just taking care of the folks at home?
12/15/09: A Shout-out to the Associated Press – For exposing a big loophole in the health reform bill
12/14/09: The Next Most Underreported Health Reform Story – What will happen to SCHIP?
12/09/09: The Botox Beat – Using the press to fight a proposed tax on cosmetic surgery
12/08/09: What’s So Public about a Public Plan? – The language says it all
12/07/09: The Most Underreported Health Reform Story – And the senator from Nebraska
12/04/09: The Headlines Tell Us Everything – The Congressional Budget Office weighs in on premiums
12/03/09: Yes, Virginia, There Really Are Cost Controls – What miracle will bring down the price of medical care?
11/30/09: The Man in the Middle – What Jeremy Devor’s story tells us about health reform
11/25/09: Missing Persons Redux – Insuring those at the very bottom
11/24/09: The Devil in the Details, Part III – Do the House and Senate bills really count as insurance reform?
11/23/09: Ron Wyden Speaks Out – Straight talk on affordability from Oregon’s senior senator
11/18/09: Laurel to the Missoulian – For telling the human story of health reform
11/16/09: Missing Persons – How will reform affect ordinary folks?
11/13/09: Do Doctors Always Tell the Truth? – No, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
11/11/09: Infant Mortality, Abortion, and WellPoint’s Tonik Policy – It’s dot-connection time for the media
11/10/09: The Doctors and the Disabled – Have the doctors won on fee cuts?
11/10/09: The Disabled and the Doctors – People with disabilities will still have to wait for Medicare
11/05/09: The Price of Medical Services – Is the conversation finally starting?
11/04/09: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part IX – What does the public say?
11/02/09: The Devil in the Details, Part I – Who can afford health insurance after reform?
10/30/09: The Times Misses the Mark – A health care lobbyist puff piece that goes nowhere
10/27/09: Dr. Coca-Cola on Call – The king of Coke teams up with the family docs
10/26/09: Truth Emerges about the Public Option – Who really will be allowed to join?
10/26/09: The Latest News from Massachusetts – Obama comes to talk about energy, not health care
10/22/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part Seventeen – The docs are back for their piece of the pie
10/20/09: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part VII – Unintended consequences for patients
10/15/09: CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part VI – The view from Union Station, Washington D.C.
10/13/09: The Insurers’ Grand Strategy – More well-timed studies to influence the pols and the polls
10/12/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part Sixteen – Fighting a soda tax
10/09/09: WellPoint versus the State of Maine – Forget Olympia Snowe, there’s other news in the north country
10/08/09: The Devil in the Details, Part I – The tug-of-war over penalties for not buying coverage
10/07/09: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part VII – Unintended consequences for small business
10/02/09: Baucus Watch, Part XVI – What we should have known all along
09/30/09: Journalism in the Heartland – A shout out to the Kansas City Star and the Salina (Kan.) Journal
09/29/09: CJR’s Town Hall Meetings: Scranton, Pennsylvania – The view from an Italian festival
09/27/09: Baucus Watch, Part XV – What’s the senator hiding in his bill?
09/25/09: A Dart to Health Affairs – Policy journal jumps in bed with Aetna
09/23/09: Baucus Watch, Part XIV – The senator confronts the affordability question
09/22/09: When a Tax Is a Tax – The New York Times explains
09/21/09: The President versus Stephanopoulos – When is a tax not a tax?
09/20/09: Medical Homes? You’ve Got To Be Kidding – The new health care dialect
09/18/09: Examining the Individual Mandate – The Wall Street Journal takes a hard look in Massachusetts
09/16/09: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part VI – The canary in the coal mine
09/14/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part Fifteen – The gun owners come out of the woodwork
09/11/09: CJR’s Town Hall Meetings: Columbia, Missouri – The view from Main Street
09/10/09: What Did the President Really Say? – More goals and details and questions to ponder
09/09/09: Baucus Watch, Part XIII – At last, the senator brings forth a plan
09/09/09: Where Have All the Health Reform Goals Gone? – What will Obama articulate tonight?
09/08/09: CJR’s Town Hall Meetings: Honesdale, Pennsylvania – The view from Wal-Mart
09/08/09: Shout-outs to the Kansas City Star and Kaiser News Service – For starting to fill in the blanks on health reform
09/04/09: CJR’s Town Hall Meetings: Columbia, Missouri – The view from the heartland—the patients
09/02/09: The Op-Ed No One Wanted – Canada’s corpse-strewn landscape?
08/31/09: CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part I – The view from Starbucks at Fifteenth and Third
08/28/09: Laurel to T.R. Reid – For extraordinary clarity in explaining foreign health systems
08/26/09: Ted Kennedy’s Health Care Legacy – Reporting on the lion
08/25/09: Was a Public Plan Ever Really in the Cards? – Did Sebelius speak the truth?
08/24/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part Fourteen – Those clever drug companies
08/18/09: Excluded Voices – An interview with Andrew Dillon, who heads Britain’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
08/17/09: Reality Check for the White House – Axelrod’s e-mail raises more questions
08/13/09: Straight Talk, Part I – The end-of-life myth and the real long-term care stories to be told
08/11/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part Thirteen – United Healthcare has a mighty big seat
08/10/09: Health Reform and Obama’s Consumer Protections – Good for consumers, or good for insurers?
08/05/09: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part V – Finding affordable health insurance
08/04/09: Health Care Homework for the LA Times – How does the Canadian medical system actually work?
08/03/09: Detailing the Details – A few bright spots in the media’s health reform coverage
07/31/09: Pelosi, Prevention, and PBS – Is Madame Speaker misinformed?
07/30/09: Shades of Richard Nixon – Is Obama playing defense or offense?
07/28/09: Health Reform Too Boring for Broadcast? – Not at KQED
07/27/09: Baucus Watch, Part XII – The mother’s milk of politics and more
07/24/09: All the President’s Words, Part II – Slogans for change, or a movement for change?
07/22/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part XII – Did the AMA snooker the press?
07/22/09: Sen. Schumer, Meet Louise Russell – What’s this about preventative care saving money?
07/21/09: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part IV – The new math, or maybe it’s the old
07/20/09: Gregory A+; Sebelius D- – NBC’s David Gregory bores down on Madame Secretary
07/17/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part XI – Center for Medicine in the Public Interest fights against a public plan
07/14/09: Hospital Disconnect – USA Today offers news you can use, but a little more context, please
07/13/09: Health Care in France—and in America – A journalist’s observations
06/30/09: Memo to Sen. Barbara Boxer—and Journalists, Too – More skepticism about savings from preventive care, please
06/29/09: Health Care Flashpoints, Part III – Taxing insurance benefits and health care equity
06/24/09: Excluded Voices – An interview with Wendell Potter, former head of corporate communications for CIGNA, the country’s fourth-largest insurer
06/23/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part X – We finally hear from the business community
06/22/09: What Journalists Can Learn from Celinda Lake – Wisdom from the Democrats’ wordsmith
06/19/09: Baucus Watch, Part XI – The first glimpse of what he has brought forth
06/16/09: Cost Savings Myopia – Making the numbers fit the script
06/16/09: Excluded Voices – An interview with Louise Russell, research professor at Rutgers and an expert on preventative care
06/15/09: Stephanopoulos A-; Sebelius D – George bests the Secretary of Health and Human Services
06/12/09: Health Care Flashpoints, Part II – The individual mandate—when journalism becomes a lobbying tool
06/10/09: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part III – Rapidly rising medical costs jeopardize the state’s insurance miracle
06/08/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part IX – PhRMA and the AMA join forces with insurers
06/05/09: Postscript on Single Payer – The San Francisco Chronicle offers some respectability
06/02/09: What a Young Reporter Learned from the UAW – Lessons about health care and other matters
06/01/09: Baucus Watch, Part X – Disagreements surface among the Dems
05/29/09: What the Heck Do the Senators Mean? – More clues about a public plan
05/22/09: Single-Payer Advocates Finally Get Their Say – Montana papers lead the way
05/21/09: Excluded Voices – An interview with Jonathan Oberlander, health policy expert and professor of social medicine and health policy & management at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
05/18/09: Where Will the Money Come From Redux – Maybe not from us, say health care special interests
05/15/09: Where Will the Money Come From? – And who will be left out of health reform?
05/13/09: Baucus Watch, Part IX – The senator ejects single-payer advocates—again
05/12/09: Will Health Care Providers Really Reduce Spending? – The press exhibits some skepticism—but more is needed
05/11/09: What Journalists Can Learn from Frank Luntz – Wisdom from the Republican wordsmith
05/08/09: Who Will Be at the Table? Part VII – WellPoint brings forth voices from the grassroots
05/07/09: Memo to Journalists: Move Beyond the Beltway Babble – Men (and women) on the street are foggy about health reform
05/04/09: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part II – Does an individual mandate work? Depends on who’s talking
04/30/09: Baucus Watch, Part VIII – What kind of public plan is the senator talking about?
04/28/09: A Laurel to the Eagle-Tribune – Paper gets Astroturfed and smells a rat
04/24/09: A Dart to the Buffalo News – Paper confuses Medicare Advantage news with insurance marketing tactics
04/22/09: Who Will Be at the Table? – WellPoint brings forth voices from the grassroots
04/14/09: 60 Minutes and The Nation Shine on Health Care – Two good stories that expose health care’s holes
04/13/09: Hiding the Messenger – What’s Lewin’s pedigree anyway?
04/10/09: Laurel to the Tampa Tribune – For adding a fresh dimension to the Medicare Advantage story
04/08/09: Excluded Voices – An interview with Marilyn Moon, vice president of the American Institutes for Research and a former trustee of the Medicare system
04/06/09: Obama AWOL on Health Reform? – Times tackles the President’s “light touch”
04/01/09: Sick Around America – What exactly was Frontline trying to say?
03/30/09: Some Big Dots to Connect – Which could tell who really will pay for health reform
03/30/09: Baucus Watch, Part VII – Does he or doesn’t he support a public plan?
03/25/09: Insurers Have a New Idea – Is it really for real?
03/25/09: What Are Insurers Up To? – It depends on whose story you read
03/23/09: Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part I – Critical analysis begins to trickle in
03/18/09: Laurel to The Philadelphia Inquirer – For parsing preexisting conditions
03/12/09: Time Offers Half a Loaf – Great health care story—but then what?
03/09/09: The Takeaway from the Health Care Summit – New euphemisms for the press to avoid
03/06/09: Baucus Watch, Part VI – The senator’s thoughts on financing health reform
03/06/09: Who Will Be at the Table? – Single-payer advocates are almost left off the invite list
03/05/09: Explaining COBRA – Let’s have some straight talk from the media
03/03/09: Wanted: More Skepticism at The New York Times – When the word “nonprofit” has a deeper meaning
03/02/09: Adieu, Medicare Advantage? – Another insurer gets in trouble
02/27/09: Where’s the Plan? – The media score well on their first-day budget stories
02/25/09: Mandating Health Coverage Makes a Comeback – The President and the man on the street
02/24/09: Divining Obama’s Health Care Budget – Early signals and the need for sharp eyes
02/20/09: Update on Medicare Advantage Plans – The administration’s unfinished business
02/19/09: A Laurel to the AP – For telling us who may not be at the table
02/17/09: The Stimulus Bill and Universal Coverage – The media are AWOL at the first skirmish
02/13/09: Dart to CNN – Who’s fact checking whom?
02/11/09: What the Stimulus Package Holds for Health Care – The devil indeed lurks in the details
02/09/09: Vetting Daschle’s Replacement – And the wisdom of the crowd
02/09/09: Excluded Voices – An interview with Timothy Jost, law professor at Washington and Lee University and author of Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement
02/06/09: Baucus Watch, Part V – Smoke signals—when exactly will health reform happen?
02/03/09: Who Will Be at the Table? – The hospitals begin to take their seats
02/02/09: Mr. Daschle and His Speaking Fees – What “policy advice” did he give to United Healthcare?
01/28/09: Laurel to The Oregonian – Health care miracles that aren’t
01/26/09: COBRA and Health Care Equity – It’s time for the press to connect some dots
01/23/09: Baucus Watch, Part IV – Lobbyists in white hats
01/20/09: Missing Children – The story behind the story on SCHIP
01/16/09: Dart to the Florida Health News Service – Whose side is it on, anyway?
01/14/09: WellPoint Gets in Trouble with Medicare – Journalists should jump on this story ASAP
01/12/09: A Headline Writer Gets Carried Away – A real plan, or a lot of sweet talk from Daschle and his Senate colleagues?
01/08/09: The TV Doc as Surgeon General – Whose interests will Sanjay Gupta promote?
01/07/09: Who Will Be at the Table? – The docs have escaped media scrutiny—so far
01/06/09: A Laurel to the AP – For exposing one of Medicare’s biggest holes
01/05/09: Report from the Tupperware Circuit, Part II – The public vents, the press takes notice
2008
12/23/08: Report from the Tupperware Circuit – A laurel to the Marion (Ohio) Star
12/22/08: Health Care Flashpoints – Whither the public plan option?
12/19/08: Who Will Be at the Table? – Special interest groups masquerade as ordinary citizens
12/18/08: Only in America – Insurance for the insured who become uninsured
12/15/08: Did the Press Hear What We Heard? – The media bury some important news on Obama’s health plan
12/09/08: Some Good Health Coverage at Local Papers – Laurels in El Paso, Dayton, and Colorado Springs
12/08/08: Who Will Be at the Table? – What lurks under the insurers’ gesture of friendship?
12/05/08: Conseco Redux – What lessons does the Pennsylvania insurance mess have for health reform?
12/03/08: Baucus Watch, Part III – Montana reporter digs deep into the senator’s white paper
11/24/08: Let’s Hear It for Penalizing the Uninsured – The Daily Oklahoman passes along some suggestions
11/20/08: Who Will Be at the Table? – Drug companies eye a large chair
11/18/08: Health Care Lessons From California – Arnold offers his wisdom on reform
11/17/08: Excluded Voices – An interview with Theodore Marmor, public policy and political science professor at Yale and expert on the politics of Medicare
11/13/08: Baucus Watch, Part II – What’s really inside the senator’s health-care white paper?
11/11/08: A Laurel to the Philadelphia Inquirer – And its excellent series showing the plight of the uninsured
11/10/08: Two New Story Lines for Health Care – A march to victory or a rollback of ambitions?
11/06/08: Huckabee on Health, Again – The preacher and his sermon
11/04/08: Baucus Watch – A key senator on health reform holds a listening session
11/03/08: Divining Medicare’s Future – CBS takes a crack at what’s in store for seniors
10/30/08: Health Care Rationing Explained – The Syracuse Post-Standard dares to widen the debate
10/27/08: Now Who’s Crafting a Secret Health Plan? – Is Ted Kennedy really proposing socialized medicine?
10/27/08: Paging Dr. Gupta – How CNN’s doc misdiagnosed McCain’s health plan
10/23/08: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tries to Redeem Itself – A better job on health care, but still a ways to go
10/20/08: Who’s Cutting What in Medicare? – A missing campaign issue suddenly surfaces
10/15/08: And Now From the Heartland…. – KOLN/KGIN tries to explain health care
10/14/08: Health Care on the Mississippi, Part IX – Real people and the candidates’ plans—some conclusions
10/13/08: Let the Crystal-Balling Begin – More red meat needed from the Associated Press
10/08/08: Dissecting the Health Care Debate – What the candidates said and didn’t say
10/07/08: Twelve Questions About Health Care for Tonight’s Debate – There’s more to talk about than taxing benefits
10/06/08: Who Will Do the Best Job on Health Care? – Neither candidate, say 40 percent of the voters. What gives?
10/06/08: Stephanopoulos Snoozes, Public Loses – How about a little help for your viewers, George?
10/03/08: Sarah Palin on Health Care – Media take note: How about a good game of connect-the-dots?
10/03/08: A Sensitive Look at the Uninsured – Health care documentary drives home the financial crisis
10/02/08: A Story That We’d Rather Not See – A cop-out at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
10/01/08: Health Care on the Mississippi, Part VIII – Glenn Hall represents everything that’s wrong with American health insurance
09/24/08: A Laurel to the Columbus Dispatch – A newspaper gets real with real people
09/22/08: Health Care on the Mississippi, Part VII – Living with Medicare for a long time
09/17/08: Health Care on the Mississippi, Part VI – Paying out-of-pocket means postponing necessary procedures
09/16/08: McCain Under the Microscope – A major news outlet takes a look at his health plan—finally!
09/11/08: Which Little Piggy Got Left Out? – What Elizabeth Edwards said about John McCain’s health plan
09/10/08: A Laurel To NPR – Strong coverage on health care issues
09/08/08: Health Care on the Mississippi, Part V – For the Hernandez women, diabetes runs in the family
09/08/08: Bad News, Bad Story – How about some clarity from the AP?
09/03/08: Dissing Elizabeth Edwards – The media miss the real story—her health care message
09/02/08: McCain Surrogates Take To The Press – Shame on the Dallas Morning News
08/28/08: Postscript on Harry and Louise – Health reform takeaways from the convention
08/26/08: The Obamas and the Chicago Hospital Controversy – What it really says about health care
08/25/08: Harry and Louise Are Back Again – But the media miss the important subtext
08/25/08: Health Care on the Mississippi, Part IV – You can’t win for losing when it comes to health care
08/21/08: Health Care on the Mississippi, Part III – Heart attacks, knee replacement, and sudden unemployment
08/15/08: Health Care on the Mississippi, Part II – An aging father and his diabetic son
08/15/08: Health Care on the Mississippi – Real people and the candidates’ plans, Part I
08/12/08: Unhealthy Alliances between Hospitals and TV Stations – SPJ award goes to a courageous news director
08/08/08: McCain’s Health Proposals Under the Microscope, Part V – Does he really have a way to control costs?
08/05/08: Are the Dems Wimping Out? – Platform leaves wide open space for the special interests
08/01/08: McCain’s Health Proposals Under a Microscope, Part IV – Selling insurance across state lines: cheaper premiums or skimpy benefits?
07/29/08: Comparing Ohio and Ontario by the Numbers – The Beacon Journal points to better health stats in Canada
07/25/08: Battle For the Grassroots – Campaign for an American Solution vs. Health Care for America Now
07/24/08: McCain’s Health Proposals Under the Microscope, Part III – How will the sick obtain coverage?
07/18/08: McCain’s Health Proposals Under the Microscope, Part II – Who’s making the medical decisions, anyway?
07/14/08: McCain’s Health Proposals Under the Microscope – Ending employer-based insurance as we know it?
07/11/08: One Step Forward, One Step Back – The AP gets it right on universal coverage, but new code words loom
07/08/08: Where Have All the Doctors Gone? – Finding out would make a good story for the summer lull
07/07/08: Memo To Health Care Reporters – Explain what the terms “national” and “universal” really mean, and what Obama’s plan really does
07/03/08: At Last: A Good, Issue-Driven Health Care Story – The Catholic Courier makes things clear for readers
07/01/08: Please, ABC, Tell Us What This Story Is About – Another Obama flip-flop? Or just a plan that insurers will support?
06/27/08: More Questions About Massachusetts Health Care – And some fine coverage from the State House News Service
06/24/08: Grassroots Support for Single Payer – Some in the media find their rallies worthy of coverage
06/19/08: A Tale of Two Visions — For Health Reform – McClatchy newspapers miss the story line
06/17/08: The High Cost of Health Care – Do journalists deserve some of the blame?
06/16/08: On Health Care, a Warning from the States – Big talk of reform dried up in the legislatures
06/12/08: Turning Point: Health Care – He said/she said is bad medicine. Time to dive into analysis
06/09/08: How Not to Cover a Speech – In health care, challenge the bromides
06/04/08: Inside the Insurers’ Bag of Tricks – Two newspapers take a hard look
05/27/08: Watch the Democrats, Part II – The Hill’s skeptical story still stands
05/21/08: No More “Socialized Medicine” — Part II – The New York Times gets it right, too
05/19/08: Do Dems Want Health-Care Reform? – Some hedging in the halls of Congress
05/15/08: No More “Socialized Medicine”–at least from the AP – One loaded term down, many to go
05/13/08: Dick Cheney’s Health Care – Good enough for you? Moyers raises the equity question
05/12/08: About Those Holes in Your Health Policy – As campaigns discuss the uninsured, the insured have their own problems
05/08/08: The World’s Best Health Care—Really? – John McCain’s campaign canard
05/01/08: McCain’s Health-Care Muddle – What’s he doing? Don’t ask the media
04/30/08: Missing: Single-Payer in Pennsylvania – What David Brancaccio, and the rest of the press, left out
04/25/08: Health Reform and the Single Girl – A fresh take on the candidate’s health care ideas—from Glamour
04/22/08: Memo to McCain: Dems Are Not Calling for Government Health Care – Stephanopoulos tries (unsuccessfully) to set the record straight
04/18/08: McCain’s Quiet Medicare Bombshell – Privatizing Medicare one inch at a time
04/16/08: $17 Million a Day to Influence Congress – Health interests dole out the dough to get their way
04/14/08: The Forgotten Health Issue – Why is no one talking about long-term care?
04/08/08: Globe Dissects McCain’s Health Plan – More questions raised than answered
04/07/08: Hillary’s Bad Facts – How should the press handle a health care stumble?
04/03/08: Looking Under Hillary’s Caps – On health care costs, readers need help with the fine print
04/01/08: Elizabeth Edwards on John McCain’s Health Policy – Someone has to translate
03/26/08: A Health Care Conversation Opener – A North Carolina blogger cuts through the chaff
03/25/08: The Missing Genre – How do the candidates’ plans affect ordinary folk?
03/18/08: Good Angle on the Drug Industry – The Washington Post connects some dots
03/17/08: “Socialized Medicine” R.I.P. – Who’s afraid of the big, bad bogeyman?
03/11/08: McCain’s Health-Care Disconnect – Boasting about the U.S. system may not cut it anymore
03/06/08: Dude, Where’s My Health Care? – The AP blows it in a story about insurance for “slackers”
03/03/08: Accuracy in Truth Squading II – The Plain Dealer does it right
02/27/08: Teaching vs. Preaching – A glimmer of pedagogy in the Ohio debate: were the media learning?
02/25/08: Accuracy in Truth Squading – KTRK-TV’s truth meter needs recalibration
02/20/08: The Definition of Universal, Again – Ted Kennedy’s take on it
02/20/08: Impressive Coverage at the LA Times – Exposing warts in the health insurance market
02/15/08: Obama’s Lobbyist Line – A “more complicated truth” on campaign contributions
02/08/08: A Cautionary Tale for David Brooks and Others – What, really, was Jim Cooper’s “Clinton Lite?”
02/04/08: Harry and Louise Redux? – The media miss the point
02/01/08: Tax Credits Explained…Finally – The Salt Lake Tribune takes a deeper view
01/30/08: A Guide That Isn’t – Too much brevity at the Chronicle
01/23/08: Mitt’s Health Plan, Debunked – Why isn’t the press paying attention?
01/21/08: Health Care: Passing Along the Confusion – The Times unclarifies
01/18/08: Moving the Boundaries – A Pennsylvania paper dares to cover single payer
01/14/08: Health Care: Who Will Be at the Table? – Following the (insurance company) money
01/02/08: Medicare Mystery – Why the conspiracy of silence?
2007
12/19/07: Deception in Des Moines – The Register’s Media Watch might want to check the mirror
12/12/07: Huckabee on Health – How about some details, Mike?
12/07/07: A Health Care Mirage – How candidates (and reporters) misuse the word “universal”
11/27/07: The New Health-Care Debate – Interview with NPR health policy reporter Julie Rovner
11/27/07: Romney Talks Tough on Health Care – But what’s he really saying?
11/21/07: Rudy’s Unhealthy Stats – Some good reporting holds Giuliani’s phony cancer numbers at bay
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