This is a good example of how health care policy itself often gets buried in the news media and how in the dark the public is typically kept. Coverage of health related issues and diseases (particularly cancer) do get a fair share of coverage, but the issues of health care policy and the crumbling system itself lag behind. We have a health insurance problem in this country-big time. Policy awareness and public participation in forming policy are key in resolving the crisis. But if no one talks about it or reports on it consistently in the media, does it really exist? Kind of like the age old question about whether a tree makes a sound when it falls if no one is around to hear it….
See also the Kaiser Family Foundation report on the study of health news coverage in the media.
