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This week on CounterSpin: As a report from the Center for Responsive Politics’ Open Secrets website noted recently, pharmaceutical manufacturers and health insurance companies have a lot of points of disagreement these days—about who’s mainly to blame for high drug prices, for instance. But they agree on something: Medicare for All cannot become law.
Partnership for America’s Health Care Future (PAHCF), a coalition of drugmakers, insurance companies and private hospitals, is lobbying hard to sink the popular proposal, recently introduced in the House by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D.-Wash.). The coalition has such powerhouses as the AMA and Blue Cross/Blue Shield on its side, and spent some $143 million in lobbying in 2018 alone. On the other side: the growing majority of Americans who think a wealthy country can do better than forcing people to choose between buying insulin and paying rent.
Which side are corporate media on? Well, we’re learning more about that every day. We’ll talk about Medicare for All and the media with Diane Archer—founder and former president of the Medicare Rights Center, she is currently president of JustCareUSA.
Transcript: ‘We Already Spend More Than Medicare for All Would Cost Us’
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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at recent coverage of Tucker Carlson, Venezuela and progressive Democrats.
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Thank you, thank you. I listen and I learn. I have been listening to KPFK/Pacifica for over twenty years and I am sure you were onboard KPFK about then too. How could I do without you?
However, to get others to listen, I am at my wits end. I am not a demanding person. I cajole, I kid and I beg asking others (my Democratic club friends) to please listen and get their information from “proven” and accurate sources.
I am so tired of trying to get others to change their news gathering habits. MSNBC, CNN, what a joke! It is lazy man’s TV-news. Tuning on the radio is just so taxing, and the listening carefully is such a strain. Hey let’s just sacrifice the truth again and again. How can one go forth and advocate for what is fair and just when armed with less than accurate information.
How in the hell do you make good changes doing the same damn thing over, and over again. I fear 2020 is going to be 2016 all over again. We cannot continue to inflict our lack of reality on this country and the rest of the world. It is willful ignorance. Thank you again.
Yours in Peace,
Barbara
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
― Benjamin Franklin