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Seniors could be reform’s largest wild card
Michael Booth and Karen E. Crummy of The Denver Post report that, with AARP effectively neutralized by fire from both…
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USA Today matches hospital quality data, tourism
USA Today‘s Steve Sternberg and Jack Gillum put a new spin on federal Hospital Compare ratings and other hospital quality…
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Key CMS database unresponsive, inadequate
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General released a memo (27-page PDF) detailing an investigation that…
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More Health Policy myth Whac-A-Mole
As part of his Health Care Fact Check series, the Cleveland Plain Dealer‘s Stephen Koff looks into the theory that…
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Herbicide levels high in many water supplies
Recent reports indicate that current federal standards may allow dangerous levels of the herbicide atrazine into water supplies, especially in…
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KQED takes stock of food safety measures
California public radio station KQED explored food inspection and safety at all levels of the process, from producer to consumer,…
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FDA drug-monitoring system tricky, promising
Doctors Jerry Avorn and Sebastian Schneeweiss write in the New England Journal of Medicine that the Sentinel Network the FDA…
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CJR: Where did ‘death panels’ come from?
AHCJ president Trudy Lieberman, writing for CJR.org, traced rumors of “death panels” in the Obama reform plan back to radio…
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What really happened at Memorial after Katrina?
In a story that is being co-published by The New York Times Magazine and ProPublica, Sheri Fink, M.D., painstakingly reconstructed…
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Kleyman: Reform scare tactics hurt ethnic elders
Paul Kleyman of New America Media about a cruel twist: the “death panels” label propagated by some extremists may serve…