...just as it was in the health “debate,” single payer, improved Medicare for All, was also excluded from the film. The major point of the influence of health industry dollars on the reform process which should have been mentioned is that these dollars were spent in order to restrict the debate and protect industry profits. The lucrative status quo would have been threatened if single payer had been openly discussed because a publicly-financed national health program can provide high quality universal health care and control health care costs, something that a private insurance based system cannot accomplish.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Frontline Fronts for Corporations Instead of Public
by Dr. Margaret Flowers from After Downing Street. Both PBS and NPR function as major "gatekeepers" of opinion in the US in the never ending efforts by the ruling class to "manufacture consent".