C-SPAN Health Care Reform – would you watch?

By Michael Vass | January 6, 2010

The questions at hand are transparency, health care, and the word of the President. All of these are issues that cause the politically tunnel-visioned to fume. But the issues still remain.

President Obama campaigned on a pledge to pass Health Care Reform, and to do so while the public was watching on C-SPAN. Now, there is a final Bill being worked on and Bill Lamb, CEO of C-SPAN, has requested to place the entire debate on the final Bill live on television.

“C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb wrote [in part], “Now that the process moves to the critical stage of reconciliation between the chambers, we respectfully request that you allow the public full access, through television, to legislation that will affect the lives of every single American.”

The response from the White House has been

I don’t feel that was an answer. In fact I beleive that at 1:00 – 1:12 on the video the reporter was threatened.

So the questions come down to these 2 things:

  • Has the Obama Administration lived up to it’s promise of transparency?
  • If C-SPAN was allowed to provide live coverage (assuming Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid took the Bill from closed door meetings) would you watch it?
    Rating 4.00 out of 5

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