More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
During a discussion with New-York Presbyterian Hospital CEO Dr. Steven Corwin on Tuesday’s CBS This Morning, co-hosts Charlie Rose, Norah O’Donnell, and Gayle King all accepted his call for more government involvement in the health care industry and fretted that not enough Americans were being forced to purchase medical insurance.
Corwin declared: “I think that we have to, as a country, decide: is health care a right or is it a privilege? If it’s a right, then we’ve got to insure everybody.” Rose invited him to bash the Republican replacement of ObamaCare: “So therefore, what is the fundamental mis-assumption on the part of this bill?” Corwin replied: “The fundamental mis-assumption is that you need to subsidize people more and you need to keep the individual mandate. Otherwise you cannot have a functioning insurance market...”