C-SPAN complains about private health talks - Political Intelligence - A national political and campaign blog from The Boston Globe - Boston.com

C-SPAN complains about private health talks - Political Intelligence - A national political and campaign blog from The Boston Globe - Boston.com: "Democrats' apparent decision to come up with a final health care bill not only behind closed doors but within a very select group of negotiators is drawing criticism not only from expected quarters, but from the media.

Both C-SPAN and House Republicans are reminding President Obama that he once pledged to have the health care negotiations carried on the gavel-to-gavel cable network.

'As your respective chambers work to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate health care bills, C-SPAN requests that you open all important negotiations, including any conference committee meetings, to electronic media coverage,' C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb wrote in a letter to Obama and congressional leaders that the network released this morning."

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TRANSPARENCY?? Congress Ignores C-SPAN Request To Televise Healthcare Negotiations

In November 2007, President Obama promised that the reform of health care including the negotiations will be open in a public setting, and not behind closed doors. He even suggested that they would be broadcast live on CSPAN and streamed live over the net. In fact he said they needed to be open because that's why Hillarycare was defeated.



Both the president and the congress have been Ignoring that promise, because transparency is the last thing they want.

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The head of C-SPAN has implored Congress to open up the last leg of health care reform negotiations to the public, as top Democrats lay plans to hash out the final product among themselves.