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Jonathan Cohn
Biography

Jonathan Cohn is a senior editor at The New Republic, where he has been since 1997. He writes mainly about politics and domestic policy, with a particular focus on issues related to social welfare and health care. He has been called "one of the best health care writers out there" (New York Times) and "one of America's leading experts on health care policy" (Washington Post).

His 2007 book, Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis--and the People who Pay the Price, won the Harry Chapin Media Award, which recognizes the year's best coverage of poverty-related issues. It was also a finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Award. The Chicago Tribune listed Sick among its "Best Books of 2007."

Prior to coming to TNR Jonathan worked for six years at The American Prospect, where he remains a contributing editor. He has also written for the Boston Globe, Mother Jones, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Self, Slate, the Washington Monthly and the Washington Post.

Jonathan is currently a senior fellow at Demos, the non-partisan think-tank based in New York City. From 2002 through 2004, he was a media fellow with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. In addition to appearing on radio and television regularly, he is a frequent public speaker on health care issues. (See disclosure statement here.)

Jonathan grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he became a devoted fan of the Miami Dolphins. He later attended Harvard University, where he eventually became president of The Harvard Crimson and a devoted fan of the Boston Red Sox. Most of all, though, he is devoted to his wife and two children, with whom he lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Post date 09 10, 07
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The Mulligan
Post date 10 08, 07
Everybody knows how much contempt conservatives show for Hillary Clinton whenever she talks about health care. But people tend to forget how much liberals have been deriding her, too. It was just a few months ago that Michael Moore attacked her in Sicko, alleging that campaign contributions from people in the health care business had made her a tool of that industry. Last week, when asked about Clinton and health care, John Edwards made a similar charge, pointedly noting that, "in order to have universal health care, you have to be willing to take on ... insurance companies, drug companies, and their lobbyists." In other words, he would deliver what Hillary could not.