Wednesday, July 23, 2008
 
When Is A Lobbyist Not A Lobbyist?
When he agrees with the journalist's point of view:
    A rising number of uninsured patients are going without necessary care and are raising medical costs for those who have insurance coverage, according to a report released Tuesday by the Missouri Foundation for Health.

    The report, "The Significance of Missouri's Uninsured," took several recent studies from health care think tanks and federal agencies, located data relevant to Missouri and added analysis. The report was prepared by the foundation's Cover Missouri project, which began earlier this year.

    "I think there is an increasing understanding among Missourians that we're reaching crisis," said Ryan Barker, a health policy analyst for the nonprofit foundation, which conducts health research and advocacy. "This is a problem not just of a few people but of almost 800,000 Missourians.
Spending money on health care for the poor? Not when there's a study to conduct to bolster allocating tax money to a cause!

When it's a special interest group that the paper likes, it's not lobbying, it's advocating, and the special interest group-funded study isn't suspect, it's news.

I know, it goes without saying. But I'll say it anyway because it's as important to make a mystical chant out of the truth as it is the less-than-true that you want to stick in people's heads.


- posted by Brian J. @ 3:01 PM
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