If you are a journalist covering the healthcare beat and wish to have access to the inside “scoops” concerning what is going on or coming up within the US Government “health” bureaucracy, you need to have insider access. You want to be on the list of people who are contacted concerning an upcoming press release or emerging issue. But the quid pro quo is that you have to play nice with the big boys, and not be too critical (for a deeper dive, look up “controlled opposition” or “Hegelian dialectic”) or you will lose access to the centers of power and associated information stream.
