Can healthcare blogs fill the gap left by mainstream news coverage? | PBS

Paul Testa recently checked his voicemail and listened to a message from a hospice worker who lives in a conservative district of Ohio. He'd never met or spoken to this person before, but the worker reached out because Testa seemed like the right person to receive some important, inside information about the healthcare system.

Testa doesn't work for a health department, nor is he an investigative reporter. He and Joanne Kenen write theNew Health Dialogue Blog for the New America Foundation, a think tank...