yinyangman12

Does anyone ever try to tell the politicians voting for this bill the lives that will be lost by approving it? You mentioned in another question that those voting for it see it from the view of politics rather than the people, but has anybody ever confronted those politicians when they say something like that?

But the thing is, the CEO isn't admitting anything. He's saying that the current plan is bad and that the new one will be better. He implies that it doesn't matter if people die, as the plan goes on it will cover those people. But my problem with it is that the reporter doesn't get the guy to actually admit that, that the CEO doesn't say "people will die and that doesn't matter as the plan goes on less people will", he just gives vague statements about how the new plan will be better somehow. The fact that the reporter doesn't press the issue to actually get him to admit the problem, is what bugs me.

I get what you're saying, that the CEO doesn't really want to address that question and deflects to saying how, because our health care plan will be better, one life wont matter, without saying that of course. But what I'm getting at, and something that I'm becoming a journalist because of, is that it should also be the job of the reporter to press guys like that into actually giving an answer, especially on a question like that. I mean isn't it the job of reporters and journalists to ask the hard questions and to push people into answering those questions?

What kinds of things did you have to do to get the poor and wealthy districts to talk to you? Why did they have reservations about sharing this information with you?