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obama
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Consumers, experts react to Obama speech
Kaiser Health News got the reactions of nine experts to President Obama’s address to Congress. The group includes researchers, policy…
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Post-reform plans may still be too spendy for some
Kaiser Health News’ Jordan Rau reports that, even if current health care proposals (Rau focuses on the House bill) were…
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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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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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Insurance industry positioned to profit from reform
In BusinessWeek, Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein write that major insurance companies have already succeeded in defining the debate over…
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Pew: Health care again tops week’s media coverage
The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, which monitors 55 news outlets and about 1,300 stories across all…
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NPR: Reform arguments confuse folks
NPR’s Liz Halloran reports that while many understand that the nation’s health system may need to be changed, and that…
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Kaiser tool compares Health Policy proposals
The Kaiser Family Foundation has put together a thorough, handy tool for comparing various health care reform proposals, one which…
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Press not explaining how plan will affect consumers
AHCJ president Trudy Lieberman recently appeared on Bill Moyers Journal on PBS, with Marcia Angell, M.D., a senior lecturer in…