“A bizarre report from Julie Rovner [of All Things Considered] on healthcare reform and the recent election” catches the attention (11/11/08) of NPR Check‘s Mytwords, since, he notes, “as everyone knows the the voters who helped elect Obama president want and expect major healthcare reform”:
Explaining the reasons why even reform (instead of complete overhaul) might not happen the way you thought it would when you cast your ballot, Rovner makes this statement: “So obstacle one is a public that’s divided between wanting more and less government involvement in in healthcare.”
Divided? That’s funny…. I could have sworn there were some serious majorities out there who support government led universal healthcare. I did a little searching and–whew–I wasn’t just hallucinating again.
Pretending that “37 percent [against] to 63 percent [for] is like, wow, almost a 50-50 deadlock with just a little 13 percent change in each direction,” Mytwords asks if “honestly, does Rovner think she can just make up any lie that fits NPR‘s general opposition to universal healthcare and pass it off as fact?”
Read FAIR’s magazine Extra!: “Media on Healthcare: Saying What They Don’t Mean” (1-2/08) by Janine Jackson
