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The stubborn facts on health care that ABC refuses to air

on Aug 25 2009 at 9:02 am | Filed under: Media matters

ABC, aware that, when facts being stubborn things the only thing you can do when you don’t like them is run and hide, has refused to air this ad:

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Please post it on your blog and email it to your friends to counter ABC’s partisan cowardice.

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7 Responses to “The stubborn facts on health care that ABC refuses to air”

  1. on 25 Aug 2009 at 9:31 am 1Ymarsakar

    Don’t give me these Republican lies, Book. I’m of the Anointed Class here that has seen and accepted the white guilt of white privilege. ABC is run by corporations and corporations are run by the greedy need to profit through exploitation.

    There is about as much bias in ABC’s decision as there is in the other half of the news, controlled by right wingers. The bias of corporations are based upon money, not ideology.

    (Posting as an intelligent and conscientious fake liberal)

  2. on 25 Aug 2009 at 10:38 am 2baseballmaven

    I’m not surprised that ABC refused to air this. . . I am sure they’ll be airing the administration’s fearmongering tactics in regard to the H1N1 flu, which I believe is being exaggerated, possibly to help pass Obamacare.

    ABC’s reaction is quite consistent with the Obamamania that is rampant everywhere (can we get a vaccination for that?).

  3. on 25 Aug 2009 at 11:05 am 3David Foster

    I wonder how Disney (ABC’s parent corporation) would argue that this turning-down of revenue is consistent with their fiduciary obligations to their shareholders.

  4. on 25 Aug 2009 at 11:07 am 4suek

    Has any reason been given (that you know of) for the refusal to air the ad?

  5. on 25 Aug 2009 at 6:47 pm 5BrianE

    Although administration officials are eager to deny it, rationing health care is central to President Barack Obama’s health plan. The Obama strategy is to reduce health costs by rationing the services that we and future generations of patients will receive.

    The White House Council of Economic Advisers issued a report in June explaining the Obama administration’s goal of reducing projected health spending by 30% over the next two decades. That reduction would be achieved by eliminating “high cost, low-value treatments,” by “implementing a set of performance measures that all providers would adopt,” and by “directly targeting individual providers . . . (and other) high-end outliers.”

    The president has emphasized the importance of limiting services to “health care that works.” To identify such care, he provided more than $1 billion in the fiscal stimulus package to jump-start Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) and to finance a federal CER advisory council to implement that idea. That could morph over time into a cost-control mechanism of the sort proposed by former Sen. Tom Daschle, Mr. Obama’s original choice for White House health czar. Comparative effectiveness could become the vehicle for deciding whether each method of treatment provides enough of an improvement in health care to justify its cost.

    WSJ column by Martin Feldstein, past chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors and Harvard professor, reinforces the reality that rationing is inevitable under any Obama plan.
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204683204574358233780260914.html

  6. on 25 Aug 2009 at 7:36 pm 6Mike Devx

    What in the world is wrong with that as an advocacy ad?

    I happen to believe every word the fellow said about the effects of ObamaCare. He might be wrong and I might be wrong… but I don’t think so.

    Too bad I can’t boycott ABC. I’m already not watching it.

  7. on 25 Aug 2009 at 10:58 pm 7MacG

    This is why ABC never should have had a sleep over in the White House.

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