Originally published July 10 2005
America's health care crisis not being reported
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Given the slippery slope in which health care management has been proceeding under the Bush administration, media experts predict that large corporations will soon control or even monopolize the health care system.
Not long ago, I had the occasion to discuss health care with reporters and editors of the Washington Post.
"Not much chance of a Pulitzer here," he said, adding that the Post's huge resources in health care coverage were being squandered by lack of leadership and direction.
In fact, the Post--like most of the national media, both print and electronic--has shown little or no evidence that it is prepared to launch a sustained investigation into the need for health care reform.
By and large, media have confined themselves to workaday reporting of events, contenting itself with transcribing the arcane transactions of Washington's power elite, health care industry lobbyists, and a passel of hired-gun academics and think tank policy wonks.
No crowds have been reported to be chanting, "We want managed competition!"
And while the phrase has popped up repeatedly in media reports in virtually every newspaper and television network, few reporters have managed to say exactly what it means.
Stripped to its core, the policy would create large-scale, corporate health care entities like HMOs (health maintenance organizations), run by a few large insurance companies.
That was the tone of the coverage in virtually every newspaper and broadcast news organization.
And, as a result of the media focus on health care, President Bush and the various Democratic presidential candidates scrambled to come up with a health care "plan" of their own.
Second, again to their credit, media began to focus on the enormous lobbying clout and influence buying of the insurance industry, drug companies, doctors and other special interests.
First, many news outlets blew it on holding presidential candidates accountable on their health plans.
Gradually at first, and then like a mantra that appeared in almost every article about the Canadian system, we started to hear about "waiting lines" in Canada.
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