Single-Payer & Interlocking Directorates

The corporate ties between insurers and media companies

A single-payer plan would allow the delivery of healthcare to remain private, but the government would pay for it out of a single federal health insurance fund. Like Medicare or Canada’s healthcare program, it would cut out the middleman by bypassing private health insurance companies. But such companies are well-represented on the boards of directors of media conglomerates—a factor that may help explain the blackout of such a popular possibility for ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 6, 2009

Murphy gives well researched information suggesting why big media has stiffed the advocates of single payer health care. Follow the money.

We need to break up the consolidation of media under huge conglomerate corporations, and get publicly financed elections if we are to have an informed democracy.

A recent FAIR study of nine major media corporations and their major outlets, Disney (ABC), General Electric (NBC), CBS, ... More »

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