Shoddy Reporting on “Prescription for America”

Dear Readers,

OK I’m frustrated and I need to blog!!!!

The thing I’m upset about is Barack Obama’s health care plan “Prescription for America” ABC special. I just started to watch a little bit of it- the question and answer portion at the end of the program, and the first question from Diane Sawyer (who I never really had an opinion about before but now I have one and it ain’t a good opinion) was absolutely ridiculous and biased and slanted and it was also just a plain bad question.

Grrr!!!

Diane Sawyer asks a question of a guy in the audience, a CEO of a major health insurance company. And this is the question she asks:

If I could, I’m going to bring in Ron Williams from Aetna, CEO of Aetna… I’d like to ask a question of him and then Mr. President let you comment on his answer. Mr. Williams, Aetna, to take one, an insurance company, we hear all over the country people see their premiums going up 119 % in the last several years and they see the profits of the insurance companies in the billions and billions of dollars, even in a lean year, they see profits in the billions of dollars. Is the president right that you need to be kept honest?

Garrrr!!!! What kind of question is that? It makes the CEO look like a bad guy! By asking if he needs to be kept honest, she’s implying that he’s not honest. And she’s doing something that Mitt Romney’s opponents did to him- talking about how much money Ron Williams has. Diane wants us to think, “Ooooh, Ron Williams is an ultra rich miser, exploiting the lower classes! We need to keep him honest by a government run health care system!”

(You should listen to the way she says it, too. It’s outrageous! It’s here, http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7923615 fast forward to about four minutes in.)

That question makes no sense at all. There’s an agenda behind it. She’s not a good reporter, and I doubt something like that would happen if the news broadcast didn’t happen from within the White House.

Obama loved the question, by the way. You can see him smirk after she asks it.

But kudos the CEO of Aetna for the way he answered Diane’s slimy question. Williams wasn’t immature about how unfair Diane was being. He didn’t stoop down to her level. He hit a home run, in my opinion, when he said, among other things in his response, “It’s difficult to compete with a player who’s also the person refereeing the game.”

Amen, Ron Williams!

The Government will compete with the private health insurance companies, but the government gets to make the laws about health care, so the government will skew the laws so that they win the competition.

Obama’s health care plan is a step closer to socialism.

Obama’s general theme of “Prescription for America” seemed to be, “I just want there to be another option. That’s all. We’re not going to force anyone to sign up for my health care plan. I just want to put a public option out there, and if anybody wants to take it, fine. If they’re happy with the health care they have now, that’s fine too. I just hate to see that we live in a country where poor people die of diseases on the streets and nobody cares, while at the same time billionaires sip cocktails and celebrate their health, because they can pay for medical treatment. Under this health care plan that I’m proposing, every one will have the medical coverage they deserve.”

Grrr…. That rhetoric makes me angry!

Here's a great article analyzing the "Prescription for America" TV program: http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20090625043708.aspx

If you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it’s free.

Sincerely,
Telemoonfa