Comments on: Real Journalism: A Prerequisite for Real Debate on Healthcare http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/07/30/real-journalism-a-prerequisite-for-real-debate-on-healthcare/ The national media watch group Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:27:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Wiese Jones http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/07/30/real-journalism-a-prerequisite-for-real-debate-on-healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-8462 Wiese Jones Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:38:27 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=11527#comment-8462 Mr Roberts, I just lost my health insurance because I can no longer afford it. How is paying full price for dr visits (I had a $5,000. deductible because that was what I was able to afford),and prescriptions and labwork etc. "Adequate"? And how is it that a 73 yr old woman who lost her husband to cancer is about to lose her home due to the medical bills incurred even though she had health insurance? Tell me how is that adequate? When you say it's "available" - that's the only truth - it's available to those who can AFFORD it! Mr Roberts,

I just lost my health insurance because I can no longer afford it. How is paying full price for dr visits (I had a $5,000. deductible because that was what I was able to afford),and prescriptions and labwork etc. "Adequate"? And how is it that a 73 yr old woman who lost her husband to cancer is about to lose her home due to the medical bills incurred even though she had health insurance? Tell me how is that adequate? When you say it's "available" – that's the only truth – it's available to those who can AFFORD it!

]]> By: Paul Theis http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/07/30/real-journalism-a-prerequisite-for-real-debate-on-healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-8458 Paul Theis Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:51:47 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=11527#comment-8458 I would like to know how many mainstream news publications or cable TV networks have even mentioned health insurance whistleblower Wendell Potter, let alone the insurance industry practices and tactics he reveals or the arguments he makes in favor of reform. He has been on Bill Moyers' Journal and Democracy Now! Anywhere else? And did you happen to see Mike Tomasky's piece in The Guardian calling into question the idea that Blue Dog Democrats face electoral peril if they support President Obama's health reform plans? Instead of that insight, we get an apparently misleading piece from CNN's John King, "Blue Dogs on constituents' short leash over health care," citing ONE vulnerable Democrat. I would like to know how many mainstream news publications or cable TV networks have even mentioned health insurance whistleblower Wendell Potter, let alone the insurance industry practices and tactics he reveals or the arguments he makes in favor of reform. He has been on Bill Moyers' Journal and Democracy Now! Anywhere else?

And did you happen to see Mike Tomasky's piece in The Guardian calling into question the idea that Blue Dog Democrats face electoral peril if they support President Obama's health reform plans? Instead of that insight, we get an apparently misleading piece from CNN's John King, "Blue Dogs on constituents' short leash over health care," citing ONE vulnerable Democrat.

]]> By: Doug Latimer http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/07/30/real-journalism-a-prerequisite-for-real-debate-on-healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-8455 Doug Latimer Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:25:19 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=11527#comment-8455 I thought I'd pass this along: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/31 I doubt Danny would find it useful, but other folks might. I thought I'd pass this along:

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/31

I doubt Danny would find it useful, but other folks might.

]]> By: Doug Latimer http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/07/30/real-journalism-a-prerequisite-for-real-debate-on-healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-8454 Doug Latimer Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:19:42 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=11527#comment-8454 Danny, every industrialized nation in the world has some form of single payer system - and they all have higher satisfaction rates than the US. You could look it up. As for what Congress is pimping, it don't got diddley to do with single payer - that's why folks are pushing this petition. I'm not sure how you missed that. Finally, Article 25 states that every person has a right to health care "adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family". If that were the case, there'd be no need for "reform" - real, or the farce this administration is trying to foist upon us - would there? And you may not give a rat's ass about other people, but I do - as badly as I carry out that obligation, I do. Danny, every industrialized nation in the world has some form of single payer system – and they all have higher satisfaction rates than the US. You could look it up.

As for what Congress is pimping, it don't got diddley to do with single payer – that's why folks are pushing this petition. I'm not sure how you missed that.

Finally, Article 25 states that every person has a right to health care "adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family". If that were the case, there'd be no need for "reform" – real, or the farce this administration is trying to foist upon us – would there?

And you may not give a rat's ass about other people, but I do – as badly as I carry out that obligation, I do.

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