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Republicans killed HillaryCare, so why are they cozying up to one of its chief promoters?

On June 21, 1994, NBC aired a two-hour prime-time special on health-care reform. Hillary Clinton was the special guest for the first half-hour of the program, which portrayed the Clinton plan as a reasonable compromise. So blithely did it pass over any potential problems with the proposed regulatory regime that the Media Research Center, a watchdog group in Alexandria, Va., bestowed upon the special its “Janet Cooke Award” for the “most outrageously distorted news story of the month.” Who paid the $2.5 million for the block of time to air this thinly veiled advertising for the Clinton plan (plus another million to promote the special)? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, based in Princeton, N. J.

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Republicans killed HillaryCare, so why are they cozying up to one of its chief promoters?

On June 21, 1994, NBC aired a two-hour prime-time special on health-care reform. Hillary Clinton was the special guest for the first half-hour of the program, which portrayed the Clinton plan as a reasonable compromise. So blithely did it pass over any potential problems with the proposed regulatory regime that the Media Research Center, a watchdog group in Alexandria, Va., bestowed upon the special its “Janet Cooke Award” for the “most outrageously distorted news story of the month.” Who paid the $2.5 million for the block of time to air this thinly veiled advertising for the Clinton plan (plus another million to promote the special)? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, based in Princeton, N. J.