Well, that flaming Clinton liberal Joe Klein has column out today in which he makes this remarkably misleading claim:
The system is a fiscal mess, the king of all budget busters. It is also a moral mess, leaving far too many Americans with far too little protection. But the President is wrong when he says, "The system we have isn't working well for too many people." The vast majority — more than 80% in the latest TIME poll — are satisfied with their health care.
Link to Klein's full article.
Sounds like 80% of Americans are satisified, huh? Expect to hear this thrown back at us on cable a few million times?
Too bad it's not true.
What Joltin' Joe forgot to say is this:
Of those people in TIME's survey who currently have health insurance (89% of respondees), 80% of those were "satisfied."
Guaranteed: the 50 million Americans without health insurace and the 14,000 more who are losing it every day are definitely not satisfied.
And since when would 80% satisfaction rate be something to brag about when it comes to your and your family's health care?
If 20% of hospital patients were "not satisfied" with the care they received, do you think there might be some investigations (not by mainstream media, of course) and some heads rolling?
Once again, when it comes to this critical issue, the mainstream media cannot report fairly or accurately.