The Centrist watched Meet the Press and is saddened by the demise of the once iconic program. The show is not the same since the passing of Tim Russert. Here is a clear example of why:
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The Centrist watch Sen. Mitch McConnell discuss the Health Care Reform proposals on ‘Meet The Press’. Sen. McConnell stated that the focus of Health Care Reform should be cost and access to Health Care delivery.
The moderator of meet the press offered a rebutal to the Quality of Health care in the US by citing a study which was co-written by the brother of Obama’s Chief Of Staff and a respected journalist in Health Care Reform.
Just wondering why MSNBC chose that particular study as a rebuttal to Sen. McConnell.
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The rebuttal that MSNBC.com gave to Sen. MCConnell that the US has Quality Health Care was a study by the brother of Obama’s Chief Of Staff.
From Wikipedia:
Ezekiel "Zeke" J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D. (1957-) is an American NIH bioethicist, a leading opponent of state-assisted suicide, and a proponent of a Guaranteed Healthcare Access Plan.
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Emanuel is trained as an oncologist and is an NIH Bioethicist. He is the son of Dr. Benjamin M. Emanuel and Marsha Emanuel. In a recent speech on C-SPAN, he said he is an oncologist specializing in breast cancer.
His brothers are White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, a former Democratic US Representative, and Hollywood-based agent Ari Emanuel.[1] He has an adopted sister, Shoshana Emanuel.
Ezekiel graduated from Amherst College in 1979 and received his MSc from Oxford University in Biochemistry. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and subspecialized in Medical Oncology. He also received a PhD in Political Philosophy from Harvard University.
Currently Emanuel is Director of the Clinical Bioethics Department at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Ezekiel has been tapped as a White House Health Care policy adviser.[2]
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Is too much medicine the real cause of the our health care crisis? Every year, 18,000 Americans die from lack of health care; but even more, 30,000, die from too much treatment. In Overtreated, Shannon Bronwlee looks at what’s really crippling our system. Named the #1 Economics Book of 2007 by The New York Times, Overtreated exposes the wasteful flaws in our system, shows us why a heartbreaking number of Americans — 47 million — live without health care, and offers brilliantly counterintuitive solutions. "Patients, physicians, and policy makers would do well to consider her evidence as an important prescription for reform," says Dr. Jerome Gropman (How Doctors Think.)
An acclaimed journalist, Shannon Brownlee has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine and TIME. She is the recipient of The National Association of Science Writers’ Science-in-Society Award, and the Association of Health Care Journalists’ Award for Excellence. As a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think tank, she gives talks to the general public and government agencies on health care policy and the pharmaceutical industry. She has lectured at universities, including the NYU School of Journalism, and at conferences, including The Nobel Laureates symposium.
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