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July 28, 2009

Watchdog Group Calls on ABC to Include Coverage of Single-Payer Option
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The media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and New
York-based healthcare advocacy groups are planning to deliver a petition
to ABC News today demanding that the TV networks include discussion of a
single-payer option in their coverage of the national healthcare debate.
The petition’s 11,000 signatories include filmmaker Michael Moore,
former MSNBC host Phil Donahue, Doctor Quentin Young and actors Tim
Robbins and Susan Sarandon. President Obama’s former physician, Dr.
David Scheiner, also signed the petition. ABC News disinvited Dr.
Scheiner from its recent town hall meeting on healthcare reform, where
he had planned to ask President Obama about single payer.



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