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Health Care

• October 14 -- Taking Time to Defend Kerry
Adam Nagourney and Robin Toner's post-debate rush job makes one attempt to weigh the competing claims in the debate -- in Kerry's defense.

• February 16 -- Did Sanctions Ruin Iraqi Hospitals?
Jeffrey Gettleman holds international sanctions partly to blame for the ruinous state of Iraq's hospitals. Iraqi doctors would disagree.

• December 3 -- Quantifying (Liberal) "Hope"
In a story on "health activism" courses taken by NYC medical students, Sharon Lerner cloaks Naderite advocacy in dreamy notions of "quantifying hope."

• October 23 -- Gov. Bush's "Ghoulish Journey" to Save Terri Schiavo
A Times editorial takes Florida Gov. Bush to task for preserving Terri Schiavo's life: "The State Legislature and Gov. Jeb Bush have mocked the courts' careful deliberations and embarked on a ghoulish medical journey by directing that her feeding resume." Apparently the Times finds nothing at all "ghoulish" in letting a brain-damaged woman starve to death.

• October 23 -- Keeping Terri Schiavo Alive a "Constitutional Crisis"
Adam Liptak's story on Terri Schiavo sees a constitutional crisis in allowing the brain-damaged woman to live: "The Florida Legislature has created a constitutional crisis, legal scholars said yesterday. "

• October 10 -- "Shrill, Privileged" Doctors vs. "Advocate" Ralph Nader
A New Jersey bureau chief squeezes in class warfare and several other liberal cliches in his column on "shrill" and "privileged" doctors protesting high insurance premiums.

• September 23 -- More Government = More Efficient
Reporter Jennifer Lee offers a suggestion to make health care simpler and less expensive: Get the government more involved. “Nonprofit advocacy groups have long argued that the efficiencies gained in having one centralized payer would help provide comprehensive health coverage for everyone.”

• June 3 -- Bad Medicine At The Times
Times critics are “flooding the zone” regarding the paper’s slanted coverage of the pharmaceutical industry, with one suggesting an Augusta National-style crusade in the works against drug companies.