
I have been struggling of late when students interested in the health care debate ask me where they should go for information on the Internet. When the debate gets as complicated as this one has, I long for that one website where casual (and not so casual) observers of the heath care debate can go for all the information they might need, including legislation, transcripts of all hearings, links to blogs, columnists, think tanks, lobbyists etc. There are a few portals like that on the Internet, but the best I’ve seen so far is Timothy Noah’s “Health Care Reform: An On-Line Guide… “ on Slate.com. The link is at:
Noah is a senior writer for Slate and a former assistant managing editor at the U.S. News & World Report. He’s been updating this website frequently, so if you’re looking for a veritable “department store” of information about the health care reform debate with less obvious ideological overtones, I would send your students there first ….