Articles with health care Tag
Worth Reading: Extreme Sacrifice, Anger Rocks, Kid Health GOP Style
By Elizabeth Farkas on Jun 4, 2011
An offer of astounding sacrifice by seniors in Japan’s nuclear aftermath. Anger can be a healthy thing, sometimes. And cuts in children’s health care that don’t even make sense fiscally.
WORTH READING: No One Need Apply, Best Place to Work?, Where to Get Sick
By Elizabeth Farkas on Mar 8, 2011
Corporations are hitting record profits this year so where are all the jobs? Despite massive tax incentives for job creation, companies like Verizon and GE are cutting back their workforce rather than increasing it. Perhaps it’s time to provide them with some disincentives to turn the tide for America’s unemployed.
A Deadly Health Care Rumor
By Russ Baker on Aug 17, 2009
The other day, the New York Times got around to a bit of investigation into the origins of false information about health insurance reform. But just a bit—not nearly enough.
The stubborn yet false rumor that President Obama’s health care proposals would create government-sponsored “death panels” to...
The Importance of Whistleblowers
By Russ Baker on Aug 6, 2009
In the New York Daily News, columnist Stanley Crouch stresses the significance of health insurance p.r. executive Wendell Potter’s defection to the health care reform movement. Potter is now working with the Center for Media and Democracy to counter industry propaganda and reveal the internal workings of...
The Blue Dogs: Best Friends of Big Business
By David V. Johnson on Jul 29, 2009
[Updates below – Ed.]
As the Obama administration attempts to overhaul the nation’s health care, energy, and financial sectors, it faces the growing leverage of the Blue Dog Coalition—the conservative, fifty-two-member faction of the House’s Democratic caucus—to moderate, or obstruct, its...
Paying More to Cut Costs
By David V. Johnson on May 16, 2009
The Washington Post today reviews the political push that led to the $36.5 billion in Obama’s stimulus package devoted to modernizing health records. Behind the president’s rosy predictions about the plan’s cost savings is the very industry that stands to gain a fortune from the...
Questions about Health Care Reform
By David V. Johnson on May 11, 2009
David Sirota asks three questions that all journalists should be raising about President Obama’s alliance with the health care industry to reduce costs and reform the system:
1) If the health industry is saying it can lower costs by $2 trillion over 10 years and remain highly profitable, isn’t...
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