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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 Affordable Care Act has done far less to control health care costs than many media accounts would lead you to believe. Columnist Trudy Lieberman shows how reporters can cut through the spin.
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"We are now in another war of words over health care," writes Trudy Lieberman, "and the first casualty, as in any war, is always truth." For examples, look no further than the recent dialogue on Medicare.
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![[Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images]](https://centerforhealthjournalism.org/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_list_thumbnail/public/title_images/GettyImages-460502078.jpg?itok=fo1DP9-C "[Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images]")
The failures of the national conversation during the run-up to Obamacare's passage are now hastening its demise, with too few Americans seeing firsthand benefits.
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Trump's election victory has spurred new fears of changes to Medicare. But the move to privatize Medicare has been underway for decades, with Medicare Advantage representing the movement's most recent guise.
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Republicans, with their relentless insistence on repealing and replacing the ACA, have reframed the discussion of what’s politically possible to achieve in America at the moment.
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are merely the latest in a long line of American politicians who have cast aspersions on the Canadian health care system. Here's what they don't get.
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![Proponents of the public option didn’t prevail in 2009. They’re still unlikely to do so today. [Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images]](https://centerforhealthjournalism.org/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_list_thumbnail/public/title_images/GettyImages-92613210.jpg?itok=E-TMFbeD "Proponents of the public option didn’t prevail in 2009. They’re still unlikely to do so today. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)")
What's known as the "public option" has been given a fresh push by Clinton's campaign and the Democratic Party this year. But while the Obamacare problems it seeks to address are real, it's an unlikely solution.
Here we check in with prominent health journalists and experts to see what sites, newsletters and social media feeds they turn to first every morning. This week, we caught up with Trudy Lieberman, contributing editor to the Center for Health Journalism and Columbia Journalism Review.
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At its core, l’affaire EpiPen is not about a single drug maker making sky’s-the-limit profits. It’s about how we pay for pharmaceuticals, how we contain price increases, and ultimately, who gets to use the drugs.
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The health insurance co-ops created under Obamacare have largely turned out to be a massive failure. How did so many co-ops run aground so quickly? A look at their short, troubled history.