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Trudy Lieberman
Contributing Editor
Trudy Lieberman, a journalist for more than 45 years, is a past president of the Association of Health Care Journalists and an adjunct professor of public health at the CUNY School of Public Health. She is a long-time contributor to the Columbia Journalism review where she blogs for CJR.org about media coverage of healthcare and retirement issues. She also blogs for Health News Review and writes a bi-monthly column, “Thinking About Health,” for the Rural Health News Service. She was a fellow at the Center for Advancing Health and regularly contributed to its Prepared Patient blog. She had a long career at Consumer Reports specializing in insurance, healthcare financing, and long-term care and began her career as a consumer writer for the Detroit Free Press. She has won 26 national and regional awards including two National Magazine Awards and has received five fellowships, including three Fulbright scholar and specialist awards. Ms. Lieberman is the author of five books including “Slanting the Story—the Forces That Shape the News,” and has served on the board of the Medicare Rights Center and the National Committee for Quality Assurance. She currently serves as a member of the National Advisory Committee for the California Health Benefits Review Program.
Articles
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The inequities in American health care laid bare by COVID-19 will become even more deeply entrenched if the nation's highest court scraps the landmark law.
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High drug prices are making for good politics. Americans keep waiting for that to translate into effective policies.
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“Medical loss ratios have dropped like a rock,” one former insurance executive said. But will that translate into any savings for Americans?
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When older workers like Jan lose their jobs, they often lose health insurance as well, forcing many to drain their modest savings to extend their coverage.
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Hundreds of studies show Medicaid expansion saves lives. So why do lawmakers reject the program or impose punitive rules during a pandemic that hit low-income Black and Brown people so hard?
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The virus has exposed what advocates for better treatment and families of loved ones in nursing facilities have known for years.
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I called a doezen nursing facilities in three states over the past week to ask about COVID-19 cases. Here's what I learned.
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The stories on the packing houses have been a particularly compelling subplot in the media's broader coverage of the pandemic.
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What can we learn from the Italians, who by now are seasoned observers of the virus and the havoc it causes? An Italian health journalist shares reflections.
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The pile-up of nursing home deaths from COVID-19 has seared the vulnerabilities of America’s nursing homes in the public conscience as nothing else has.