Posted by Gary Schwitzer in Health care journalism
On MSNBC, “Erectile dysfunction drug ads too hot for prime time?“
An AP story, “$93,000 cancer drug: How much is a life worth? “
Guy Boulton of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on “Research could be key to lower health spending: Comparative-effectiveness studies can reduce spending on treatments that are ineffective or no more effective than less expensive alternatives.”
A Kaiser Health News piece, “Americans Still Confused, Divided About Health Law,” about a Kaiser Family Foundation poll that shows that “Misperceptions about the law also persist: for example, three in ten seniors believe the law will permit government panels to make decisions about end-of-life care for Medicare recipients (often referred to as “death panels”).”
And another Kaiser Health News piece, “As They Consolidate, Hospitals Get Pricier,” that shows how hospitals are “getting a boost from the health care reform law” but how “some observers and regulators also say it could hand hospitals more power to demand higher rates from insurers and employers.”
Overall, this was an easy-to-follow summary. But there was a clear difference between this and a competing Boston Globe story, which did a better job offering context and analysis.
This Boston Globe blog post gave its audience a more thorough understanding of an emerging approach to virtual colonoscopy than the Wall Street Journal.
Longer, but overall not any better, than the coverage from the competing LA Times story. Not thorough enough to explain what this preliminary research actually means for readers–which is not much at this point.
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