Let me address the current debate over medical reform in the United States.  Journalist Bill Moyers – of Bill Moyers’ Journal on PBS – has consistently, and by far, been the best American journalist to cover this issue over the last few months.  Nearly every week he dedicates significant portions of his program to the issue and, as always, speaks with clarity and empathy.  Moyers is truly an American treasure. I recommend watching this very recent essay of his on the subject of healthcare reform to get a taste of genuine journalism.

In this, Moyers clearly exposes the dishonest tactics of the American right regarding the reform debate and demonstrates, among other things, how hate radio and right-wing astroturf organizations promote an obstructionist, do-nothing tactic with regards to this most pressing matter.  Countering the false assertions of a far-too-left Obama Administration, he professes from the left, while warning against the likely outcome of where we’re  headed, that, “as it is, we’re about to get healthcare reform [under Obama] that measures human beings only in corporate terms of a cost-benefit analysis.”  In other words, regardless of nonsensical cries of socialism, the healthcare “reform” plan that is likely to pass will be one benefiting and strengthening the status quo, where insurance and drug companies will profit to an even greater degree, and the poorest and weakest amoung us will continue to be left out.

I’d recommend checking out more of Bill Moyers’ Journal if you get a chance.

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