Hardball’s Chris Matthews Plays Hard to Get

More than two weeks ago, Chris Matthews of the MSNBC program Hardball, said that he did not know of any senior citizen who had a complaint about Medicare.

When I learned that, I phoned and emailed the show repeatedly to give the message that Chris Matthews should visit my website www.medicareproblems.net and invite me to be a guest on Hardball to talk about the many flaws of Medicare and how Medicare harms senior citizens.

I called and emailed the show repeatedly. I spoke to two different producers. I phoned some days. I emailed some days. I phoned and emailed some days. Now, more than two weeks later, no one from Hardball wants to talk to me about Medicare problems. I must assume that Chris Matthews has visited www.medicareproblems.net and is afraid of me. Why? Because I know a lot about how the federal government’s current ventures into health care – Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA clinic system – are failing.

If the federal government can’t manage these small health care systems properly, why would any reasonable person believe that the federal government could manage a universal health care system?

On Hardball, I could talk about my helping senior citizens to cancel over $600,000 of wrongful medical bills that were caused by mistakes at Medicare. I could talk about how I have helped senior citizen veterans in their billing problems with the VA and Medicare. I could talk a bit about the failings of Medicaid, too.

Now, since Chris Matthews is afraid of me and will never invite me to be on his show, I can tell you that I would discuss why I don’t trust MSNBC.

I believe that Chris Matthews and most of the other announcers on MSNBC programs are just puppets on strings. They say what their puppet masters want them to say. They do what their puppet masters want them to do. In your mind’s eye, envision Chris and other MSNBC program hosts as having a black line going straight down from each corner of their mouths. Do you have that picture in your mind? Don’t they look like puppets on a string? Of course, they do. But, who are their puppet masters?

Most people don’t know that the federally run Medicare, Medicaid, and VA health systems rely on bureaucrats with computers and satellite-telephonic systems. Big government contractors sell these computers, software, and satellite-telephonic systems to the government. Governments spend billions of dollars for these things. Big government contractors love big government.

And who owns or controls MSNBC? General Electric. General Electric owns or controls enterprises in satellite communications, computers, and medical equipment and systems.

According to “Who Owns What?” at Columbia Journalism Review, General Electric owns many other media firms including NBC television stations, Telemundo television stations, NBC Universal Television Studio, NBC Universal Television Distribution, and the CNBC, MSNBC, Bravo, Mun2TV, Sci-Fi, USA, Sleuth, and Oxygen channels.

If a new universal, nationalized health care system is started, that new system will need more and bigger computers, more satellite-telephonic systems time, and more medical equipment and systems. General Electric might make billions more dollars than what it currently makes. Could that be enough reason for people over Chris Matthews and other tv announcers to tell them to speak well of Obama’s nationalized health care proposal and attack anyone who criticizes Obamacare? I believe so.

General Electric is not the only government industry contractor who has major ownership, control, or influence over media. Westinghouse used to own CBS. Westinghouse is a major government industry contractor. Westinghouse is involved in computers, satellite-telephonic systems, hospitals, and medical equipment and devices. Even though Westinghouse does not directly own or control CBS now, it still has “old boy network” ties to it. Interlocking membership in boards of directors, some stock ownership, and credit on very favorable terms are just some of the common devices for influencing corporations and their leaders.

Many government industry contractors have substantial influence in media. All those who have something to sell the federal government to run a nationalized health care system stand to make a lot of money if they can help to “push and sell” Obama’s nationalized, public option, single payer system to the Congress and the voters.

Almost fifty years ago, my cousin Dwight D. Eisenhower warned America about a military-industrial complex that was willing to put its interests above the interests of the nation and the people. Now, I am warning America about a government industry contractor “complex” that I believe is promoting Obama’s health care reform plan in order to accomplish billions of dollars of profit for those who help to smear and denigrate Americans who oppose Obama’s plan to nationalize health care.

So, when you watch Chris Matthews and other announcers on tv “pushing” Obamacare and slandering the opponents of Obamacare, remember something. Even if you can not see the puppet strings, the puppet strings are still there.

Woodrow Wilcox is the senior medical bill problem solver at Senior Care Insurance Services in Merrillville, Indiana. That is the largest senior citizen oriented insurance agency in the Midwest. For over six years, Woodrow Wilcox has helped senior citizens with medical bill problems with Medicare and VA clinics. He has saved senior citizens over $600,000 in wrongful charges. For more health care articles by Wilcox, visit www.medicareproblems.net or www.woodrowwilcox.com.

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