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Why this year's health-care debate sounds like the one in 1993 Full Story »
Posted by Diane KampWhy this year's health-care debate sounds like the one in 1993 Full Story »
Posted by Diane KampLieberman looks at the journalistic ethics of coverage of the health care debate and at the parallels with the Clinton health care debate debacle.
How does any plan effectively limit costs? Expensive procedures and end of life care have to be the drivers, not electronic records.
By not challenging the status quo, the press has so far foreclosed a vibrant discussion of the full range of options, and also has not dug deeply into the few that are ... More »
Very good discussion of the lack of accurate and in-depth coverage of the health law debate, including one reason why the debate is limited. Still, the mention of prevention references a researcher who confuses the discussion by talking about hypertension as a "condition" rather than a disease, muddying the water, and confuses the definitions of primary and secondary prevention.
While this story is head and shoulders above any other I've seen, it still omits a serious discussion of how health care reform, rather than simply the reform of the payment system, could save money by using primary care as the basis for medical care.
You would not expect less than quality from this publication. Their call for the print media to do a better job on covering what health care bills that will be coming is most fair and totally "Accurate".
There is a lot of learning to be done reading this article, when you consider that health care reform has been around for decades. There shortly will be bills out of the Congress' commetties the media is much needed to do their job and educate the public; sooner then later! Lastly this review should have included the following Topics: U.S. Congress & Obama Administration, plus Politics and the Media.
This is quality journalism. It is a critique of the coverage of health care reform and how the same mistakes of 1993 are being repeated now.This article goes beyond the usual suspects and identifies key figures in health care analysis. It also talks about health care issues and not just the sausage making process of how legislation gets done. It identifies how most reporting has used a similar meme to tell the story i.e. that this time things are different than 1993. But the people that the author interviews say it's not different at all.
This is my kind of article. It has historical perspective. It has knowledgeable sources that were new to me. It got to the heart of the problem with our whole democratic system in that the media is just not doing its job and American citizens are ill informed and so make lousy choices. Our congress people take their PAC money and use it to get their friends elected. They should use their money instead to educate their constituents. Nobody should say "What's single payer?" But ... More »