The Spin Doctor Will See You Now [1]
Submitted by Diane Farsetta [2] on
"If I had to do it all over again, I don't think I would use the Ontario system," said Canadian cancer patient Lindsay McGreith. "I would get my wife to drive me to Buffalo, because I know in Buffalo you'd get looked after, whereas here you'd just sit for seven and a half hours. ... Our system is lousy." McGreith's comments are in a soundbite and B-roll [3] video package (basically, an unassembled video news release [4]) distributed by the PR firm MultiVu [5] and funded by Health Care America [6], which is funded in part by pharmaceutical and hospital companies. It's part of an organized industry response to [7] the Michael Moore [8] movie "Sicko [9]." Another [10] MultiVu fake news [11] video, which was funded by America's Health Insurance Plans [12], promotes a "public-private" health care system and decries Moore's single-payer proposal as an unpopular, "simplistic" and unrealistic "public takeover of the healthcare system."