Sad but true, PBS/Frontline whitewashed “Sick Around the America” that aired 3-31-09. Read more about it below and let Frontline Producers–and WGBH and their “Executive Council” (that includes Reps from MA Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Mass. Medical Society, and the Weber Shandwick Advertising Firm that’s making a bundle off the MA Mandated Insurance Law)–know how angry you are!!

“Something is Rotten at PBS”

CounterPunch, April 2, 2009, by RUSSELL MOKHIBER
http://www.counterpunch.com/mokhiber04022009.html

And this

“What exactly was Frontline trying to say?”

CJR Campaign Desk, 4-1-09 By Trudy Lieberman
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/sick_around_america.php

“It is not clear what message Frontline wanted to deliver in last night’s Sick Around America documentary. The show, conceived as a sequel to its acclaimed Sick Around the World special, was a limp, flat journalistic effort that did nothing to help the public understand the current politics of health reform. It both demagogued the insurance industry and then sent valentines their way,…”

The only reason the insurance industry suddenly wants in on health “reform” is the prospect of forcing everyone to buy their useless product– getting government to subsidize an already fabulously wealthy racket.