The New York Times’ Robert Pear and Gardiner Harris have a front page story in the August 18th New York Times on Sen. Kent Conrad’s (D-ND) proposal to increase health insurance competition through nonprofit health care cooperatives. Pear and Harris write:

Prof. Ann Hoyt, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has done extensive research on cooperatives in many industries, said they could serve a useful purpose in health care — just as credit unions compete effectively with banks, prompting them to offer higher interest rates on deposits and lower rates on loans.
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Covering President Obama’s decision to begin federal financing for embryonic stem cell research for the March 6 New York Times, David Stout and Gardiner Harris give short shrift to the major advances research in adult stem cells have taken:

Critics of embryonic stem cell research also argue that scientists can use different types of stem cells, like those found in amniotic fluid or the placenta. But supporters of using embryonic cells say those are by far the most promising.

That’s it. That’s all the coverage adult stem cells get. Contrast that with the Washington Post’s Rob Stein’s coverage from earlier … Continue Reading