Health Care
What ESPN Could Teach the News Media About Covering Town Halls
Anthony Wright is executive director of Health Access California, the statewide health care consumer advocacy coalition. He blogs daily at the Health Access WeBlog and is a regular contributor to the Treatment. READ MORE >>
The Right-Wing Attack on Bob Bennett
Do GOP Senators Dream of Electric Sheep?
At the risk of extending a ghoulish conversation, I think Noam might be overestimating the humanity of Republican Senators when he concludes that it was a tactical mistake for Ted Kennedy to try to guarantee that his seat isn’t vacant for any period of time should he die in office: READ MORE >>
More on the Administration's Drug Deal
What kind of deal did the administration and Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus make with the drug industry? And was it a good deal? I (try to) answer those questions in an article that appears in TNR's latest print edition--and is running on our (new!) home page today. READ MORE >>
If You're a Liberal and You Read One Thing Today...
...then please read Michael Tomasky. His analysis of the political situation is spot-on, as is his advice for the ambivalent left: READ MORE >>
Now the GOP Loves Medicare? It's So Hard to Keep Track...
Harold Pollack is a professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and Special Correspondent for The Treatment. READ MORE >>
The Schiavo Saga and "Death Panels"
At HuffPo today, Sam Stein explores an irony that I've also been thinking about: many of the very conservatives who are ventilating claims that health care reform will interject the federal government into end-of-life decisions--with or without "death panels"--were hell-bent on Congress dictating an end-of-life decision in the infamous Terri Schiavo case in 2005: READ MORE >>
