Coming Soon: Pro-Obamacare Propaganda in TV ShowsMelissa Melton Marketplace reports: Hollywood Health Society, a program with the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center got a $500,000 grant this week from The California Endowment to help TV writers tell better stories about the new health insurance law. Why try to get your public health message into fictional story lines? People learn from TV, says Marty Kaplan, the director of the Norman Lear Center. Even if they know it is fiction, even if they know if writers can make stuff up, especially in the realm of medicine and public health, if a doctor says something to a patient, people tend to think that someone has checked that, that its true, Kaplan says. Kaplans group works to make sure that at least some of what comes out of doctors mouths is real, or at least real-ish. Hollywood Health Society has worked with nearly 100 TV shows everything from Mad Men to Desperate Housewives to Dr. Vegas and The Bold and the Beautiful. The Center has access to the megaphone that is Hollywood. [emphasis added] Great. I can see it now. Crying, melodramatic wife character: What can we do, doctor? He doesnt look good! Fake doctor: Well maam, Im afraid that only Obamacare can save him now Crying, melodramatic wife character, sniffling melodramatically: Where can I sign up?! Sigh. I know it isnt going to happen, but can someone please pay them more to return the check and just tell the truth? Melissa Melton is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple and a co-creator of Truthstream Media. Wake the flock up! 