Health Care News Hunt: Become A Watchdog

Keeping track of the health care reform debate has been a mammoth undertaking. A single well written article can clarify the current political playing field, while an incomplete or myopic report can skew one's perception of the conversation. To help HuffPost readers keep track of the debate while promoting the best journalism on this contentious and fast-moving topic, the Huffington Post has once again teamed up with NewsTrust to give readers the tools to filter out dodgy articles and promote the best journalism on health care reform.

NewsTrust is a community of journalists and citizens who rate the news based on quality, not just popularity, by reviewing articles for accuracy, fairness, context and other journalistic qualities.

Throughout the week, NewsTrust members will join forces with HuffPost's Eyes & Ears investigators to find quality journalism on health care reform, from the effects of proposed legislation to the lobbyists brokering backroom deals with lawmakers.

This week, the Senate Finance Committee will vote on their version of reform and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will release its report on the cost of this bill. With the CBO providing tangible facts about the financial realities of proposed reform, the debate will likely gain much-needed focus as the bill heads toward a vote. That's why we need your help to find and promote the best journalism on the subject.

Joining the News Hunt is easy. Simply sign up here and start reviewing stories listed on our Health Care News Hunt page or submit interesting articles you have come across on this topic. To find new stories for review, check NewsTrust's smart feed on health care. As you start reviewing stories, you will learn more about this important subject, and share the results with our community to make us all more informed citizens.

We will feature the top rated stories on the Eyes & Ears page and will highlight the News Hunt's findings next Monday.

Comments

[DelawareBob]

When we get rid of the illegal aliens, we will get rid of all the problems that go with them. THAT IS A FACT! Illegal aliens are destroying this Country. Illegal aliens have made America the dumping ground for all their illegal alien children, then we have to school them and give them free medical care.

I for one, am sick and tired of these ILLEGAL ALIENS snubbing their nose at our immigration laws and the many other laws of this Country. If our Federal Government can not ENFORCE our immigration laws, and get these ILLEGAL ALIENS out of this Country, then let the States do it! One way or another, an end has to come to this illegal immigration, and not with AMNESTY! Amnesty will only encourage more ILLEGAL ALIENS to invade our Country and reward those who broke our laws and raped the American taxpayer in many ways...depressing our wages, taking our jobs, overwhelming our schools with their ILLEGAL ALIEN children, driving without a license or car insurance, all the crime from stolen identities to rape, drugs and everything else.

It's time for ZERO TOLERENCE with these ILLEGAL ALIENS. It's time for them get out of this Country and back in their own Country where they belong.

[Keith Godbout]

Objective reporting! Although it's good to hear/see some of the more conservative points of view on this issue expressed in a calmer way than usual, I for one am still not convinced by any of them.

[tompoe]

Wish I had known Tad was taking his son. We've got 40,000 uninsured children in Iowa. 97.7 percent of the childrens' parents work. They could all have gone with Tad, and asked him what he was going to do to help those working parents find affordable insurance for their kids. Tad is one pathetic excuse for humanity.

[MajorBarbara]

Glad to see someone finally got down the nitty gritty and got to some real reasons why people are opposed to health care reform. It seems to me, all we go up until now were angry soundbites on television.