By Arthur Alpert “Premiums to rise for Medicare drug plan” was the headline Journal editors ran over an Associated Press story they front-paged today, Monday, Nov. 23. Of course, they ran it on the front page. There must be a rule at the Journal – anything negative, even potentially negative about Obamacare, Medicare or Medicaid […]
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The Rules for Covering Obamacare, Medicare and Medicaid: Bad news gets page one, good news gets buried, and Big Pharma gets ignored entirely
November 23rd, 2015 · No Comments · health care reform, journalism
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Big Pharma·Center for Economic and Policy Research·Dean Baker·drug prices·Medicaid·Medicare·Obamacare·patent monopolies·Paul Krugman·Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar·Richard Metcalf·Robert Reich·Saving Capitalism
Congress Failing Our Students
July 1st, 2013 · No Comments · economy, Education
By Denise Tessier The Albuquerque Journal can’t be blamed, because it has published not one, but two editorials in the past month encouraging Congress to pass legislation that would have stopped today’s doubling of the interest rate on federal Stafford student loans — from 3.4 to 6.8 percent. Several bills aimed at curbing student loan […]
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