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April 7, 2009

PBS Distorts Global Healthcare Options

A recent Frontline documentary (3/31/09) presented mandatory for-profit healthcare as the only alternative to the current U.S. healthcare system, suggesting that this was the system all other developed nations use–even though the documentary was a sequel to an earlier Frontline report (4/15/08) that examined a wide range of international options, including Taiwan’s single-payer model. If […]

March 9, 2009

Gabriel Voiles

Media Side With ‘Cognoscenti’ Over ‘Broad Support for Single-Payer’

In the latest installment of a Columbia Journalism Review series on “special interest groups… at Obama’s table” and “how the media are covering them,” Trudy Lieberman (CJR.org, 3/6/09) reports that Saul Friedman, who writes a popular column called Gray Matters for Newsday, has been almost alone in writing about what he has called a “blackout” […]

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