Health care hullabaloo (continued)
August 7, 2009Jon Brooks Comments OffLooks like Web users are quite interested in the health care reform battle that’s heated up during the congressional recess. As of this writing, the 11th-most popular item on all of Digg in the last 24 hours is this Talking Points Memo item recounting CNN anchor Rick Sanchez’s brutal questioning of Rick Scott, a former Columbia/HCA Health Care CEO and founder of Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, which is organizing opposition to the Democratic health plans now wending their way through Congress. Scott was ousted as CEO in 1997 amid an investigation that ended up costing the company a record $1.7 billion in fines for defrauding Medicare. Suffice it to say, this came up in the interview.
On Yahoo! Buzz, another service in which users vote their fave articles to the top of the heep, three of the top nine stories relate to the recent health care town-hall brawls. They are:
- Health Care Shouting Matches (No. 4)
- Top Democrat denounces health care protests (No. 5)
- White House advises Dems on health care protests (No. 9)
Also on Buzz, stories on the strong jobs report and the extension of Cash for Clunkers make the top 10. (A column about the San Francisco 49ers holds the top spot, so it’s not all about business today.)
