" The Censorship That It is " - Now Threatens US Government Health Agencies (DHHS, CMS, CDC)

On Health Care Renewal we discus the dark side of health care, particularly of the leadership and governance of health care, that has enabled health care dysfunction.  Our discussions are based on publicly available information, often produced by dogged health care journalism.Uur work has become more difficult as journalism is challenged by economic circumstances.  Yet now there are worse threats.  Despite First Amendment protections offreedom of speech and the press, journalism is now under fire from the highest reaches of US government.Information Blockade at the Department of Health and Human ServicesTwo recent articles in the Columbia Review of Journalism pointed to specific problems  The first, "Under Trump, Health Reporters Confront an Information Blockade, " September 7, 2017, focused on decreasing transparency at the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and its Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).  It provided numerous examples of officials failing to respond to apparently straightforward requests for legitimate health care information.  For example,Washington Post healthcare reporter Paige Winfield Cunningham recentlyraised a few serious questions about how the Trump administration planned to manage Obamacare ’s fall enrollment season. ' The six-week sign-up period will be the first handled exclusively by an administration that ’s hostile to the Affordable Care Act, ' Cunningham wrote, ' and one that hoped b...
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