Journalist Trudy Lieberman offers a primer for journalists covering the state health insurance exchanges in the Columbia Journalism Review's "The Second Opinion," which is supported by The Commonwealth Fund. Lieberman recommends that journalists should investigate whether plans offered through the exchanges will be affordable, the composition of their boards, and whether the plan networks will attract sufficient providers to meet demand, among other topics. In another recent post, Lieberman blogs about a Kaiser Health News article examining the proliferation of hospital rating systems—and the differing methodologies and ratings they produce.