media coverage

• Producer's Corner: It’s high time to enact a strong estate tax

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  January 1, 2013

  It’s not often that a group of billionaires, millionaires and high-profile Americans issues a public call asking to be taxed more. But that’s what happened during a December 11 teleconference for the media hosted by Responsible Wealth. The nation’s political establishment should heed their plea.

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  Olive Garden owner: PPACA backlash is a concern

  By Candice Choi and Michelle Chapman  |  December 20, 2012

  Darden won't turn full-timers into part-timers to avoid the coverage mandate, the CEO says.

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  Prudential execs detail winning PR strategies at Executive Conference

  By Warren S. Hersh  |  December 7, 2012

  When faced with a public relations crisis, a life insurance company is sometimes better off lying low than pursuing an aggressive counter-attack strategy.

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  FEMA bread

  By Bill Coffin  |  November 2, 2012

  When disaster strikes, it brings both deplorable and laudable examples of how we recover and rebuild.

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  Romney to promise to focus on "kitchen-table" concerns

  By Nedra Pickler and Steve Peoples  |  October 26, 2012

  The candidate is saying he will get away from issues like characters on Sesame Street.

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  LTCI Watch: The Price Is Wrong

  By Allison Bell  |  September 5, 2012

  Insurers should be more modest about what they promise, and regulators should be more realistic.

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  On the Third Hand: What's Essential

  By Allison Bell  |  July 9, 2012

  We have to find a middle ground between letting poor, uninsured people die on the sidewalk and tyranny of the anecdote.

• How opponents won the health care messaging war (NPR)

  By Staff Writer  |  June 20, 2012

  The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has data on just how bad of a job the Obama administration did to sell the Affordable Care Act, but it also suggests the media was partly to blame.

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  Appeal to Dad's Protector Instinct

  By Rose Cahill  |  June 11, 2012

  Father's Day is the perfect time to help Dad reassess his life insurance coverage.

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  LTCI Watch: 1in4 Save Scarce Medicaid Dollars

  By Allison Bell  |  May 22, 2012

  The LTCI bus gets media attention in Salt Lake City and Minneapolis. Medicaid gets squeezed.