Contributing editor at the Columbia Journalism Review.
Trudy Lieberman appears in the following:
A Social Security-Medicare Double Whammy for Seniors
Friday, October 16, 2015
Is Obamacare Living Up To Its Promise?
Monday, June 29, 2015
Funding End-of-Life Counseling
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Under a new policy starting next month, the government will pay doctors to discuss options for end-of-life care with their patients, which may include advance directives -- instructions on how aggressively to continue medical treatment if the patient is too incapacitated to decide for themselves. Daniel Callahan, co-founder of the Hastings Center for nonpartisan research on bioethics and public policy, and author of Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care; and Trudy Lieberman, contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review, discuss the new measure.
Medicare Changes
Monday, December 06, 2010
The Medicare open enrollment period ends in one month. Trudy Lieberman, contributing editor at the Colombia Journalism Review, discusses the imminent changes and what enrollees need to know.
Tough Cuts: Taxing Health Care, Slimming Medicare
Friday, November 19, 2010
The co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility have come up with a list of proposals of possible cuts in order to help offset the looming national deficit. Balancing the budget by 2015 will require finding ways to save $200 billion. So far, no decisions have been made on what programs should be cut, and lawmakers have to agree on where to begin.
So, we're doing the job for them - at least hypothetically. All this week, we're picking one program a day to cut and looking at what the ripple effect would be of doing so.
House Passes Senate's Health Reform Bill, Reconciliation 'Fixes'
Monday, March 22, 2010
Last night the House voted, 219-212, to approve the Senate's version of health care reform, clearing the way for legislation to proceed to the president's desk. The House also approved a set of "fixes" to the Senate bill; Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has assured the House leadership that more than 51 Senators will pass the same fixes using the Senate's reconciliation rules.
Analyzing the President's Health Care Proposal
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
President Obama released a proposal for health care reform Monday that hewed close to the bill passed last year by the Senate. After watching months of rancorous debate in Congress, the White House is laying out the key points of the proposal in plain language. But will it be enough to get reform unstuck?