http://whowhatwhy.com Groundbreaking Investigative Journalism That Explores the Truth Behind Current Events Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:14:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 decide which patients were ... http://whowhatwhy.com/2009/08/17/a-deadly-health-care-rumor/ 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 business. Whistleblowers ... http://whowhatwhy.com/2009/08/06/the-importance-of-whistleblowers/ [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 goals. The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) recently published an investigation ... http://whowhatwhy.com/2009/07/29/the-blue-dogs-big-businesss-best-friends/ 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 bill's passage. Candidate ... http://whowhatwhy.com/2009/05/16/paying-more-to-cut-costs/ 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 the industry ... http://whowhatwhy.com/2009/05/11/questions-about-health-care-reform/