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captioning sponsored by public affairs television >> this week on "bill moyers journal..." >> moyers: if you missed him the first time, wendell potter is back with the truth about health care and insurance from the inside out. >> the business that they are in is health care, certainly, but keep in mind what they want to do is enhance their profits. >> moyers: and the drug industry is writing its own prescription for heath care reform. >> moyers: welcome to the "journal." when one of our broadcasts strikes a nerve we like to bring it back to give you a second chance to see it, and to express your support of stations like this one whose independence depends on viewers like you. wendell potter was here a few weeks ago to tell an insider's story of how the health insurance industry "puts profits before patients." your response bowled us over. one blogger at the widely read web site "talking points memo" summed up what many had to say. "i beg everyone who reads this and clicks onto the link to send it on to everyone you know. send it to your congressmen, your governors, your legislatures,

>> this week on bill moyers journal. sara lawrence-lightfoot who says there is passion and adventure after the age of 50, if you're open to learning and change. >> all of us at this point, to some degree i think are on a search for meaningfulness, for purposefulness. we want to find what this next 25 years, this in fact penultimate chapter of our life, is going to be about. >> moyers: and a photographer turns our mass consumption into a thing of beauty and a warning about the fate of the earth. >> this one is called plastic bottles, and it depicts two million plastic bottles, the number we use in the united states every five minutes. stay tuned. captioning sponsored by public affairs television >> moyers: welcome to the journal. this is that time of year when public television asks you to go to your phone or computer and make a pledge to this station. more than ever, it can use your help in these very difficult economic times. this week, as we often do during pledge drives, by popular request we're bringing back one of y

captioning sponsored by public affairs television >> this week on bill moyers journal. >> moyers: what do you do when the health care debate becomes a shouting match? you bring in two independent referees to separate fact from fiction. >> we don't have a deliberative process here, taking place in public to inform public opinion. >> media coverage follows the controversies, instead of the people issues that brought us this debate in the first place. >> moyers: and, david frum from the bush white house asks his fellow conservatives what they will do if they actually succeed in killing off health care reform. >> if the republicans win, this is not going to be a great victory for individual liberty, it's going to be a victory for the status quo. >> moyers: stay tuned. >> from our studios in new york, bill moyers. >> moyers: welcome to the journal. i'm okay with protest. sometimes i wish i'd done more of it myself when i was young. but it's hard to reason with someone who's packing a gun. that's why i found so menacing that photograph of the fellow standing outside president obama's town ha

captioning sponsored by public affairs television >> this week on bill moyers journal. >> moyers: how our health care system surgically removes your wallet. >> the current medical care system is not designed to meet the health needs of the population. it's designed to turn a profit. it's designed to meet the needs of the people in power. >> millions of people are uninsured. and sure, that's part of the problem. but that's not the whole problem. the whole problem is bigger than that. >> when you have a system that's built around generation of revenue, and that money is not being put back into the system to help people, we've lost our way. >> from our studios in new york, bill moyers. >> moyers: welcome to the journal. the world of medicine has changed radically since i was a kid in east texas. back then, dr. sam tenney made house calls for a couple of bucks a visit. dr. granbury raced to a patient's side with such speed you could hear his tires screeching around the courthouse square blocks away. and if you needed a prescription, dr. wyatt would offer to drop it off at your door on his

captning snsored by public affairs television >> this week on "bi mers journal." >> moyers: a reality check, why do we need health care reform in the first place? >> a lot of people are dying, and they're dying because they don't have healthcare. >> medical care is definitely a right. nobody should be turned away. >> the big issue is your money or your life. >> you spend most of your life working, but once you don't have life insurance, everything you've worked for your whole life, will just go. >> it shouldn't matter whether you've got a $20,000 a year job. your life is just as important as somebody else's that makes a lot of money. >> moyers: stay tuned. >> from our studios in new york, bill moyers. >> moyers: wco to the journa some years ago, rgeons opened myaughter's skull and removed a brain tumor th threateneto ll or ind her. less thaa month later,hen one my arteries sdenly ut do, open heart surgery saved my life. those skilled physicns and hospital stilllow in my family's memory. but the dual crisis in our lives st tens of thousands of dollars. when the iurance came through, ba

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this was expressed on bill moyer's the journal on pbn with the discussion he had.se are my points and my observations. host: thanks for the observations. on top of that. suzy, the lead story in the philadelphia inquirer this morning says obama is saying the media is overplaying the protests, "tv loves a ruckus." he said it is polite to have questions. your thoughts. guest: absolutely. i was a journalist for 20 years. i will tell you this, reporters are lazy. they're really lazy. i don't think most people understand that there is nowhere near as much fact-checking going on as you think there is. people think what they saw on tv is true. all the time on stories. you need to fix it. they would get mad at me. i'm sure a lot of those people worked their way up through the ranks and maybe they even work at cnn. the thing is, also with the 24-hour news channels, what happens is when they have a mistake in the story, once the mistake is there, they rarely go back and fix it. they have to fill up a big news hole on a 24-hour channel. they keep repeating the same erroneous s

this was expressed on bill moyer's the journal on pbn with the discussion he had. those are my points and my observations. host: thanks for the observations. on top of that. suzy, the lead story in the philadelphia inquirer this morning says obama is saying the media is overplaying the protests, "tv loves a ruckus." he said it is polite to have questions. your thoughts. guest: absolutely. i was a journalist for 20 years. i will tell you this, reporters are lazy. they're really lazy. i don't think most people understand that there is nowhere near as much fact-checking going on as you think there is. people think what they saw on tv is true. all the time on stories. you need to fix it. they would get mad at me. i'm sure a lot of those people worked their way up through the ranks and maybe they even work at cnn. the thing is, also with the 24-hour news channels, what happens is when they have a mistake in the story, once the mistake is there, they rarely go back and fix it. they have to fill up a big news hole on a 24-hour channel. they keep repeating the same erroneo