Was the Sanjay Gupta CNN thing the "Waiting for Superman" of Healthcare?

"Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare"

http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/01/cnn-launches-escape-fire-on-cable-television-in-march/

I had the thing on in the background and had the persistent feeling that I was listening to a slick, sentimental 'blame the victim' PR piece from Aetna or Wellpoint.

There's a form to these things. Talk about the problem, then focus on some segments of anecdotal evidence of God knows what, then end with some "neither side is right" stuff.

"Neither side is right" is not always dispassionate adult wisdom. It is also an excellent way to marginalize the side that is, in fact, right.

The hippies are thrown some perfunctory and condescending bones of bamboozlement. Oh, think of the money we could save with acupuncture, but 'the man' isn't down with groovy magical medicine.

Actually, there is great interest in the health insurance industry for alternative therapies because they are cheaper than real medicine and the companies don't care whether they work... they are cheaper. The segment on acupuncture as anesthesia was such a scam. Yes, an acupuncturist is way cheaper than an anesthesiologist. But there are reasons we use anesthesia for operations... reasons that have to do with anesthesia. For operations.

The thesis of the thing is that employers can offer workers better care while spending much less money on that care, and over the course of the thing, spending less money somehow becomes synonymous with better care.

This kind of summed it up: "I am so excited about our program. It's win-win. All our non-union employees are on it now, and someday all our employees will be on it."

Did others see it the same way?