] The General Accounting Office concluded that the ] Department of Health and Human Services illegally spent ] federal money on what amounted to covert propaganda by ] producing videos about the Medicare changes that were ] made to look like news reports. Portions of the videos, ] which have been aired by 40 television stations around ] the country, do not make it clear that the announcers ] were paid by HHS and were not real reporters. [ Mixed feelings on this one. I think there are more important problems with the medicare plan, like the fact that it's very likely gonna cost 530 billion, not 400 billion among others. I haven't seen this particular segment, so i can't say how misleading it is. The GAO believes it is though.... -k] GAO Says HHS Broke Laws With Medicare Videos (washingtonpost.com) |