Groundhog Day
Why this year's health-care debate sounds like the one in 1993 Full Story »
Posted by Diane KampReview
Lieberman looks at the journalistic ethics of coverage of the health care debate and at the parallels with the Clinton health care debate debacle.
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 being discussed, thereby leaving citizens largely uninformed about an issue that will affect us all.
It isn’t just that the debate is the same and the press isn’t acknowledging it—the coverage actually suggests that things are different.
As in the early nineties, the press is covering the process of reform, not the substance.
How does any plan effectively limit costs? Expensive procedures and end of life care have to be the drivers, not electronic records.