FAIR: Keep Up the Pressure for a Real Healthcare Debate! Help Us Reach 15,000 Signatures!

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FAIR

Thursday, July 23, 2009 2:56 PM

Keep Up the Pressure for a Real Healthcare Debate! Help Us Reach 15,000

Signatures!

 

 

 

 

 

Keep up the pressure for a media debate on healthcare reform that includes

single-payer! We've surpassed our goal of 10,000 signatures on our petition for

an open debate on healthcare reform. Help us reach 15,000 signatures--please

forward this email widely, and use the " Share " button on the petition page to

share it through social networking sites such as Facebook.

 

Demand that media open the debate on healthcare reform

 

 

 

Many Americans and healthcare workers see single-payer national health

insurance as the most sensible tool for fixing America's broken healthcare

system, yet single-payer is being kept off the table by the corporate media.

 

Please sign onto this open letter to the TV networks--

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/592/t/9039/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1993

--and join us on Tues. July 28 in NYC to deliver the message (see details

below):

 

 

 

Many experts see single-payer national health insurance as the most

sensible solution to expand coverage to the uninsured and to reduce costs.

 

This proposal polls well with the public, who preferred it

two-to-one over a privatized system in a recent survey (New York Times/CBS,

1/11-15/09). It is also preferred by 59 percent of physicians, according to a

recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (4/1/08).

 

Yet a study by FAIR found that of hundreds of stories about health

care in major outlets earlier this year, only five stories included the views of

advocates of single-payer--none of which appeared on the television networks.

 

The insurance lobbies and many politicians may not want to talk

about single-payer. But that makes it all the more important that the media do.

 

Please cover single-payer healthcare proposals, and stop silencing

their advocates.

 

Signed,

 

Michael Moore, filmmaker

David Scheiner, longtime physician of President Barack Obama

Donna Smith, Sicko! star, and representative of the California

Nurses Association

Phil Donahue, former MSNBC host

Quentin Young, co-founder of Physicians for a National Health

Program

Stephanie Woolhandler, Harvard medical professor

David Himmelstein, Harvard medical professor

Susan Sarandon, actor

Tim Robbins, actor

Janine Jackson, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Katie Robbins, Healthcare Now!

Jim Hightower, radio commentator and writer

Jeff Cohen, director of journalism, Ithaca College

Mike Farrell, actor

Norman Solomon, media critic and author

David Swanson, activist and author

Jonathan Schwarz, blogger

 

 

 

 

 

Please join FAIR, Physicians for a National Health Program, Healthcare

Now!, the Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition, Code Pink and the Raging

Grannies to deliver this message at ABC News' NYC studio on July 28.

 

" Tell Media: Include Single-Payer in Healthcare Debate " petition delivery

Tues. July 28,

noon - 1 pm

ABC News

77 West 66th St.,

(between Central Pk West and Columbus Ave.)

NYC

 

ABC's recent primetime forum on healthcare reform, " Prescription for

America, " did not include a single question from a single-payer advocate, after

Obama's own longtime doctor was censored by ABC. Join us in presenting ABC with

a prescription for a real debate on healthcare reform--one that includes

single-payer!

 

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