ABC Censors Obama's Longtime Doctor

[babylonsister]

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Dr. David Scheiner speaks out about how he was mysteriously uninvited from ABC's recent healthcare forum.

Please sign the petition at www.fair.org to demand that TV networks to stop censoring the debate on healthcare!

[Delphinus]

1. Truer words were never spoken.

Unfortunately, the public doesn't get to see the truth of the matter because it's "Harry & Louise" scare tactics time.

[PatSeg]

2. Of course

many people "see the truth" every day when they try to get medical treatment. The lies aren't working anymore, because too many people have been affected by the health care crisis in this country.

[lob1]

4. FYI, Harry & Louise won't be doing the ads this time.

Harry died from cancer because his insurance company dropped him. Louise had to declare bankruptcy, and she's living in a packing crate off Main Street.

[babylonsister]

5. Not exactly...

Harry And Louise Back On TV, Supporting Health Care Reform (VIDEO)

AP/Huffington Post | ALAN FRAM
First Posted: 07-16-09 03:07 PM | Updated: 07-16-09 05:50 PM


WASHINGTON — Harry and Louise are coming back to television screens across the country to talk about overhauling health care. This time, they've switched sides.

TV ads featuring the fictional couple played a big role in derailing President Bill Clinton's effort to revamp the medical system in the 1990s. Back then, actors Louise Caire Clark and Harry Johnson played a middle-class couple worrying about the changes, and the ads were sponsored by the insurance industry, which was fighting Clinton's plan.

Now, they will appear in a $4 million TV campaign supporting a reshaping of health care, sponsored by Families USA, which champions affordable health care for families, and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. The two groups, often at odds, have joined forces this year to support some general principles behind revamping health care, such as making it more affordable for low-income people.

The ads begin airing this weekend and will run at least three weeks on national cable and network news shows.

more...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/16/harry-and-louise-back-on-_2_n_236198.html

[lob1]

6. Thanks for the info, but I was just making stuff up.

[babylonsister]

7. I figured that with the comment about the cardboard box. nt

[pam4water]

3. Or many MediCare could could just buy a big block of ad time on ABC ;) Just Kidding!

[Douglas Carpenter]

8. you beat me to it. I just read the E-mail from FAIR and was going to post it myself

:grr:

well, kick and recommended anyway!

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. more from FAIR

Tell Media: Include Single-Payer in Healthcare Debate

Add your name below to FAIR's petition

Reforming the dysfunctional U.S. healthcare system is a major issue in the news these days. The goal of the reform efforts, we're told, is to expand coverage to the uninsured and to reduce costs. But what many experts and citizens see as the most sensible solution to these problems is kept out of the discussion by the corporate media.

Single-payer national health insurance is a model in which healthcare delivery would remain largely private but would be paid for by a single federal health insurance fund (much like Medicare provides for seniors). Single-payer is favored by a majority of Americans and physicians, according to recent polls (New York Times/CBS, 1/11-15/09, Annals of Internal Medicine, 4/1/08).

Yet a recent study by FAIR found that of hundreds of stories about healthcare in major outlets earlier this year, only five stories included the views of advocates of single-payer--none of which appeared on the TV networks. In May, news coverage of the arrests of single-payer advocates showed that practically the only way to get single-payer mentioned in the corporate media is to get thrown out of Senate hearings.

Let's send a message to the networks: The insurance lobbies and many politicians don't want to talk about single-payer. But that makes it all the more important that the media do. Sign our petition to ABC, CBS and NBC, demanding that single-payer be a part of their coverage of the healthcare debate. Add your name below to lend your voice to this effort to broaden the debate over the broken U.S. healthcare system:



The petition:

Many experts see single-payer national health insurance as the most sensible solution to expand coverage to the uninsured and to reduce costs.

This proposal polls well with the public, who preferred it two-to-one over a privatized system in a recent survey (New York Times/CBS, 1/11-15/09). It is also preferred by 59 percent of physicians, according to a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (4/1/08).

Yet a recent study by FAIR found that of hundreds of stories about health care in major outlets earlier this year, only five stories included the views of advocates of single-payer--none of which appeared on the television networks.

The insurance lobbies and many politicians may not want to talk about single-payer. But that makes it all the more important that the media do.

Please cover single-payer healthcare proposals, and stop silencing their advocates

SIGN PETITION - link

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http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/592/t/9039/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1993

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