2010-07-08 Beck distorts Berwick comment to claim appointment vindicates his fearmongering over rationing
- when: 2010/07/08 (2010/07/08)
- source: MediaMatters
- topics: mainstream media/distortions Glenn Beck Rush Limbaugh neocon noise machine Fox News US/healthcare/reform/2009/disinfo Donald Berwick socialism/myths
- URL: http://mediamatters.org/research/201007080067
- title: Beck distorts Berwick comment to claim appointment vindicates his fearmongering over rationing
- summary: «Glenn Beck claimed that a quote from Obama appointee Donald Berwick "confirms everything" Beck and Fox News had said about how health care reform would result in rationing. In fact, Beck deceptively edited Berwick's comments to remove Berwick's accurate statement that the U.S. health care system already rations.»
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Glenn Beck claimed that a quote from Obama appointee Donald Berwick "confirms everything" Beck and Fox News had said about how health care reform would result in rationing. In fact, Beck deceptively edited Berwick's comments to remove Berwick's accurate statement that the U.S. health care system already rations.
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In the interview with Biotechnology Healthcare cited by Beck, Berwick acknowledges that the current health care system already rations care and that the question for the future is how best to do it. Beck omitted this context on air. From Biotechnology Healthcare, June 2009...
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On the same edition of Glenn Beck, Beck ran video of Berwick calling good health care systems "by definition redistributional" as evidence that Berwick is a "blatant socialist."