EconomyStory.org » factcheck http://economystory.org Stories and resources for understanding the economy from across public media. Mon, 03 May 2010 01:31:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Confused on healthcare? http://economystory.org/cnclawmaker/confused-on-healthcare/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=confused-on-healthcare http://economystory.org/cnclawmaker/confused-on-healthcare/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:50:03 +0000 Laura Hertzfeld http://www.economystory.org/?p=545 Chest xray/ Credit: Flickr user Aidan_Jones

If you’re finding the healthcare debate hard to keep up with, you’re not alone. Here are some helpful recent stories to start making sense of it all:

Capitol News Connection talks to Brooks Jackson of FactCheck.org to separate fact from fiction in the healthcare legislation and explains what impact the debate will have on the economy.

KQED’s Forum weighs the current healthcare legislation options with experts Alain Enthoven, professor emeritus of public and private management at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, Richard Scheffler, distinguished professor of health economics and public policy at UC Berkeley, and Victoria Colliver, health care reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle.

NewsHour’s Paul Solman answers a tough question from a viewer about why medical costs vary from state to state.

Where are you getting your news about the healthcare crisis?

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