Obama’s Health Care Infomercial Was The Lowest Rated Show On Broadcast Television
President Obama’s town hall meeting on health care delivered a sickly rating Wednesday evening.
The one-hour ABC News special “Primetime: Questions for the President: Prescription for America” (4.7 million viewers, 1.1 preliminary adults 18-49 rating) had the fewest viewers in the 10 p.m. hour. The special tied some 8 p.m. comedy repeats as the lowest-rated program on a major broadcast network.
Maybe if they’d included some dissenting opinion, and didn’t just make it a not-quite-official White House production, more people would have been interested in watching.
Regardless, I’m beginning to wonder if nationalized health care isn’t dead in the water right now. The CBO’s report on the cost of the program has Democrats in Congress backing away, and while Obama is pitching his plan with the intensity of a used car salesman on television Americans just don’t seem to be swayed.
Which is a good thing. Getting taxed more to pay less for health care isn’t exactly a bargain.
