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The doctor who served as Obama's personal physician for 22 years speaks out about how ABC
disinvited him from their healthcare forum two days before the
prime-time event where he was planning to ask about single-payer
healthcare.
Watch the video and add your name to FAIR's petition demanding that the networks include single-payer in the healthcare debate at:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/592/t/9039/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1993
| Many experts see single-payer national health insurance as the most sensible solution to expand coverage to the uninsured and to reduce costs. This proposal polls well with the public, who preferred it two-to-one over a privatized system in a recent survey (New York Times/CBS, 1/11-15/09). It is also preferred by 59 percent of physicians, according to a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (4/1/08). Yet a recent study by FAIR found that of hundreds of stories about health care in major outlets earlier this year, only five stories included the views of advocates of single-payer--none of which appeared on the television networks. The insurance lobbies and many politicians may not want to talk about single-payer. But that makes it all the more important that the media do. Please cover single-payer healthcare proposals, and stop silencing their advocates. |
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of people have signed onto this petition, including Harvard medical
professors Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein and Dr. Quentin Young of Physicians for a National Health Program; Donna Smith of the California Nurses Association; filmmaker Michael Moore; former MSNBC host Phil Donahue and actor Mike Farrell.
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