Healthcare has rationing in abundance

Los Angeles Times by Doyle McManus | Oct. 11, 2009 (Opinion)

Late last month, as the Senate Finance Committee labored to produce its version of a healthcare bill, the Republican whip, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, renewed an old warning. If the federal government intervenes to hold healthcare costs down, Kyl said, the result would be something nobody wants: rationing.

"The federal bureaucrats would, in effect, reduce the payment to providers, forcing them to reduce the care," Kyl warned. "It's not the government ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - Oct 11, 2009 - 2:33 AM PDT
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 by Morgan Doherty - Oct. 11, 2009

To start off, I think that this article was quite confusing to follow. The current healthcare situation is already highly controversial and hotly debated; thus, I think it is important for journalists to understand that they need to paint the picture EXTREMELY clear for their audience since it is already so blurred by the media. I think that this article fails to do so and thus gets somewhat lost in translation. As well, i think more sources could have been used as oppossed to heavily relying on two people (a senator and a conservative Republican). The writing style could have been more precise in depicting the whole picture. Overall, I did not think this was exceptional journalism.

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