Groundhog Day
Why this year's health-care debate sounds like the one in 1993 Full Story »
Posted by Diane KampReview
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.
Diane posted this story.
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 then our so called representatives may just want us kept stupid.