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.

Currently

  • The Medicare Gravy Train

    September 29, 2009

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

  • Missing in Action on Healthcare?

    May 8, 2009

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

2008

2007

  • Let the CHIPs Fall...

    September 20, 2007

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

  • The Medicare Privatization Scam

    June 27, 2007 Subscribe

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

2006

  • Letters

    October 11, 2006 Subscribe

  • No Rx in Massachusetts

    August 31, 2006 Subscribe

    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.

  • Letters

    February 15, 2006 Subscribe

  • Part D From Outer Space

    January 11, 2006

    The Bush Administration's ill-advised new prescription drug program could destroy Medicare as a benefit for all Americans.

2005

  • Mismanaged Care

    November 22, 2005

    Tennessee once had a visionary health care plan for that left only 14 percent of residents uninsured. But with federal cuts and a governor's misguided attempt to privatize Medicaid, Tennessee is just another state unable to protect its citizens.

  • Let Them Eat Cake

    April 21, 2005 Subscribe

    The Bush budget cuts programs for the hungry.

2004

2003

2000

1999

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Blogs

» Editor's Cut

New Web Column at The Washington Post | Every Tuesday, I'll be featuring progressive thinking about politics and challenging the Right in my new web column for The Washington Post. Read my first one here.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Posted at 4:52 PM ET

» The Notion

When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown | Anger is growing in Vancouver in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Like Olympic clockwork, here comes the media crackdown.
Dave Zirin
20 Comments
Posted at 1:28 PM ET

» The Dreyfuss Report

The Mind-Boggling Stupidity of Michael Rubin | How an AEI apparatchik's love affair for Ahmed Chalabi blinds him to Chalabi's pro-Iran treachery.
Robert Dreyfuss
25 Comments

» The Beat

John Murtha: The Old Soldier Who Said "Bring the Troops Home" | His Iraq War debate with Dick Cheney highlighted the difference between the modern era's sunshine patriots and winter soldiers.
John Nichols
105 Comments

» Act Now!

Demand Question Time | Join the call for the President and Congress to implement regular Question Time sessions.
Peter Rothberg
51 Comments

» And Another Thing

How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday | Give to help low income girls and women.
Katha Pollitt
49 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | James O'Keefe and Alter-reviews.
Eric Alterman