Something rather remarkable happened on Tuesday's Morning Joe. Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York pointed out that the health insurance industry has no clothes, and Joe Scarborough, after first trying to spin it some gossamer threads, broke down and said, By God, you're right, this emperor is a naked money-making machine Full Story »
Posted by Tanya J. Maurer - via Craig Newmark
It would be interesting to see how this opinion piece favoring socialism over capitalism would play with the American public at large. I am left wondering how Obama is going to cover such a large portion of the estimated trillion dollar extra cost of expanded health care out of the Medicare program that this article portrays as the ultimate example of efficiency: “only 4% overhead” see: Obama Identifies $313 Billion for Health Care Through Medicaid and Medicare Savings (june 13 ABC news)
Regardless of how ingenious, a propaganda piece is still propaganda and not good journalism.