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Health care reform
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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…
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AIDS advocates: Obama needs to use leverage
The Chicago Tribune‘s Tom Hamburger reports that several global health advocacy organizations, including Doctors without Borders and OxFam International, have…
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Reporters work to debunk health care myths
Some folks haven’t seemed particularly receptive to anything that doesn’t advance their agenda (see town hall meetings and editorial pages…
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Insurers wade (calmly) into the town hall fray
The Wall Street Journal‘s Vanessa Fuhrmans and Avery Johnson shed some light on the insurance industry’s low-key effort to ensure…
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Lieberman, Schwitzer on Health Policy, coverage
FAIR, a media watch group, interviewed AHCJ members Trudy Lieberman and Gary Schwitzer in an attempt to cut through the…
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Kurtz: Media ineffective at debunking claims
Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz writes that the media’s attempts to debunk claims of “death panels” in Health Policy…
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20/20 co-anchor to appear at Health Policy events
ABC News’ John Stossel will either moderate or be the keynote speaker at health-care town hall meetings in Wisconsin, sponsored…
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Reporting on the public option a topic of webcast
In a White House briefing on Tuesday, spokesman Robert Gibbs reiterated that that President Obama still prefers the public health…
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Two counties illustrate health care disparities
Anna Tong and Phillip Reese of The Sacramento Bee write about health care disparities. They use two local counties to…
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Where to find the facts on health care reform
With so many false claims about the health care reform proposals floating around, we thought this would be a good…