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-- "none of the networks (examined claims about) government programs (being) largely responsible for skyrocketing health care expenditures;"
-- critics warn that "a public insurance plan would kill private insurance because people would dump (it) for the government program....Lewin Group data (show that) 107.6 million people could lose private employer coverage under such a plan;"
-- Obama wants a "Medicare-like public option, but Medicare's in ruins;" and
-- "conservative health care policy experts argue that government is the root of problems in the US health care system, so increased government involvement is (the wrong) solution."
The report said network media coverage limited debate, and reporters violated their professional standards "by not balancing proponents and opponents of ObamaCare, downplaying huge costs, letting the administration drive coverage, not exposing government health care failures, and in some cases openly advocating for universal care."
MRC's B&MI opposes change, endorses private sector-run health care, calls Obamacare "socialized medicine," and ducks its real aim - to enrich the insurance, drug and large hospital chain cartels at the expense of real reform covering everyone under a universal, single-payer system. Everyone in. No one out getting affordable, effective care, the kind right-wing media and other dark forces oppose and disseminate misinformation to prevent it.
Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
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