Trudy Lieberman

Trudy Lieberman, a regular Nation contributor, directs the health and medicine reporting program at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism. She also covers health reform for the Columbia Journalism Review's cjr.org.

Articles

The Medicare Gravy Train (Healthcare Policy)

Humana and other insurance industry giants have been fomenting a scare campaign among seniors to keep the industry's wasteful taxpayer subsidy going.

Trudy Lieberman

Missing in Action on Healthcare? (Healthcare Policy, Executive Branch, Politics)

The Obama administration is focused on cutting healthcare costs, but that may be easier said than done.

Trudy Lieberman

Letters

Votes & Smokes, Folks

Glendale, Calif.

Trudy Lieberman, Our Readers and George Scialabba

Can Obama Reform Healthcare?

He calls for universal coverage--but that's hard to get if insurance companies run the show.

Trudy Lieberman

Cautionary Healthcare Tales From California and Massachusetts (Healthcare Policy, Presidential Election 2008, Politics)

Signs of trouble no matter who is elected President.

Trudy Lieberman

Let the CHIPs Fall... (Education, Healthcare Policy, Society)

Bush has turned renewal of a successful child health insurance program from a no-brainer to a battle on the future of healthcare.

Trudy Lieberman

The Medicare Privatization Scam (Healthcare Policy, Corporate Lobbying, Conservatives and the American Right, Politics)

Will an upcoming vote in Congress signal the end of Medicare?

Trudy Lieberman

Letters

THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY

Portland, Ore.

Trudy Lieberman, Our Readers and Max Blumenthal

No Rx in Massachusetts (Healthcare Policy)

If it becomes a national model, a new, highly touted health insurance
law in Massachusetts would make American healthcare, already on life
support, take a turn for the worse.

Trudy Lieberman

Letters

PLAN D--D FOR DISGUSTED

Douglaston, NY

Trudy Lieberman, Daphne Eviatar, Our Readers and Heather Rogers