to t v news i'm randy hanson he did days world knows soldiers struggle to find therapists soldiers returning from war are finding it more difficult to get mental health treatment because military insurance is cutting payments to serapis on top of already low reimbursement rates and a tangle of red tape right lists now extend for months to see military doctor and it can take weeks to find a private service too willing to take on members of the military the challenge appears great in rural areas where many national guard and reserve troops and their families live to avoid the hassles of tri care the military health insurance program one frustrated therapist opted to provide an hour of therapy time a week to iraq and afghanistan veterans for free barbara romberg a clinical psychologist in the washington d c area has started a group that encourages other therapies to do the same they're not going to pay me much in terms of my regular rate any way round burke said so i'm actually feeling positive that i've given rather than feeling frustrated for what i'm going through to get payment joyce lindsey forty six of troutdale oregon sought grief counseling after her husband died in afghanistan late december the therapist recommended by her physicians would not take tri care lindsey eventually found one on a provider  the process took two months it was kind of frustrating lindsay said i thought am i ever going to find someone to take this roughly one third of returning soldiers seek out mental health counseling in their first year home there are number of nine point one million people covered by tri care in numbers that grew more than one million since two thousand and one tri care psychological health benefit is hindered by fragmented rules and policies in adequate oversight and insufficient reimbursement the defense departments know how task force said last month after reviewing the military's psychological care system the tri care office that serves fort campbell kentucky and fort bragg in north carolina army post with heavy war deployment told task force members that it routinely fields complaints about the difficulty in locating mental health specialists who accept tri care unfortunately in some of our communities we are maxed out providers said louis clarissa this office quality manager in other areas the providers just are not willing to sign up to take tri care assignments and that is a problem tri care is reimbursement rate is tied to medicare's which pays less than civilian employee insurance the rate for mental health care services fell by six point four percent this year as part of an adjustment and reimbursements to certain specialists since two thousand and four tri care has sped up payments to encourage more doctors to participate said austin camacho he tri care spokesman in some locations such as i did hole in alaska the defense department has also raised rates to attract physicians he said we're working hard to overcome those challenges camacho said jack wagner is a retired military officer and psychologist and psychiatry is in private practice who also works for a tri care contractor he told the defense mental health board members last december that in general tri care pays considerably lower than private health care plans according to date data from tri care is medical benefits and reimbursement system office tri care pays mental health providers as much either more than a corporate plan would pay a therapist for treatment of the patient although in some cases it is lower there are different coverage plans within tri care and the amount paid to providers varies by plan location specialty and services performed psychologists who treat active duty troops are paid sixty six percent of what tri care views as a customary rate so our psychologist eligible for a customary rate of one hundred twenty per hour would pay be paid seventy nine twenty for an hour by tri care even if the psychologist standard rate is one hundred fifty per our active duty troops he has tried care prime a managed care option maintained by private contractors their mental health care is free guard and reserve troops and their families frequently use tri care standard a fee for service plan they pay an annual deductible and twenty percent of the amount tribe care pays for therapists john class a retired navy health care administrator who now advocates on health issues for the military officers association of america said tri care prime contractors insist that the lower reimbursement rate has made it tougher to maintain a network of providers there are ready starting to see pinch class said in a limited study by tri care released earlier this year about two out of three civilian psychiatrists in twenty states are willing to accept tri care standard clients among their new patients the lowest acceptance rate for any specialty in additional cuts in tri care payouts would mean that some really good psychologist who specialize in this treatment and are experienced by w be seen less of military families said clinical psychologist marian frank a widow who is president of the philadelphia chapter of gold star wives of america is support group for military widows  parts of montana some families drive two hours to see a physician of any kind that will take tri care said dorrie hagen state family program director of the montana national guard when you get away from a city of any size then you will start struggling for providers and they'll tell you flat out it's because of the rate pay hagen said in another story stocks news gives iraq war less attention on  wonder day one bomb blast out in iraq university killed dozens and united nations estimated the thirty four thousand civilians in iraq had died in two thousand and six m s n b c spent nearly nine minutes on the stories during a one hour program is c n n correspondent in iraq did three minute report about bombings in either story merited a mention on fox news channel that hour that was an unusual fox spent half as much time covering the iraq war then mass n b c during the first three months of the year and considerably less than c n n according to the project for excellence in journalism the difference was more stark during daytime news hours than in primetime opinion shows war occupied twenty percent of c n n time news hole and eighteen percent a m s n b c on fox the war was talked about only six percent of the time the independent think tanks report freshens a debate over whether ideology drives news agendas and it comes at a delicate time for fox top democratic presidential candidates have refused to appear at debate sponsored by far liberals find attacking fox as a way to fire up their base it illustrates the dangers of cheerleading for one particular point or another because they were obviously cheerleaders for the war said john klein c n n u s president when the war went badly they had to dial back coverage because it didn't fit their preconceived storylines thoughts wouldn't respond to repeated requests to make an executive available to tie about is war coverage so how do you explain the divergence priorities different opinions on what is newsworthy a business decision if mere coincidence fox news channel viewers argue that their favorite network is simply the most fair fox's long objected to suggestions that its newscast goes through a conservative filter surveys have shown its audience is dominated by republicans there is no similar difference in priorities among the broadcast evening news programs where iraq was top story between january and the end of march and reseize nightly news spent two hundred sixty nine minutes on iraq a b c had two hundred fifty one minutes c b s said two hundred thirty eight according to news consultant another story that has reflected poorly journalism found tim graham of the conservative media research center said fox has always claim to report from an american perspective and they did not follow the pack well graham said he may have questions about p methodology he doesn't dispute the results his group published its own study last year about the content of coverage fox didn't have its head in the sand there are more negative stories about what was happening in iraq then positive but c combined he said most coverage of iraq focuses on what he gets what gets blown up he said the problem we have with the media elite is that they clearly see fox as pandering to an audience that they don't see c n n as pandering to an audience graham said that's where i think the double standard sets in we're while polls say its size is diminishing there's clearly an audience that resist a general tenor of war coverage g o p presidential candidate rudolph galliano has applauded during last week's debate when he wondered aloud what would happen if america's war effort succeeds over the next few months how we're going to report that with the same amount of attention that we would report the negative news he said klein just three d i do that c n n doesn't give a complete picture of what is happening in iraq certain folks don't want to see any bad news he said it's our job to port all of the news the project's findings surprised c chief exactly dan abrams who has been pushing for his network to concentrate on politics and inside the beltway issues lately i'm not going to get on a high horse and judge our competition based on the numbers he said we are looking for the right balance fox says business interests may depend on less negative news about iraq but fox is audiences dominated by republicans who are disgusted about hearing bad news about iraq it would stand to reason that you would want to feed them less of it bill o'reilly touched upon that idea on the air one night last december telling viewers that the blower rated segment of his show the previous night was when iraq was discussed ready to jump it talks about britney spears he said the danger is whether there are those concerns it away at journalist dick credibility there are a new is networks c n n has climbed so it is surprising that they are not covering the biggest story in the country and the world the project for excellence in journalism steered clear of questions about what its findings proved we just want to tell the people that it does make a difference where you go for news  awaits so with less on air attention being paid to iraq during the first few months of the year what filled the void for fox p e g s report said the network gave the death of anna nicole smith significantly more air time then its rivals and another story actor and comedian roseanne barr urges the end of the israeli occupation amy goodman stated i want to turn to the words  actor and comedian roseanne barr's she recently recorded a message on the fortieth anniversary that will be played on sunday's rally in washington roseanne barr said hi everybody this is roseanne barr and i'm here to add my voice to all of your voices i'm here speaking as a citizen of the world as an american as a jew and as a grandmother all of us who gather here today are united in our desire to see could just peace in the middle east instead of vicious cycle of revenge and recruit criminal actions that benefit only those who profit from a distance they never actually themselves experience the violence and terror and suffering inflicted upon those human beings who pay the actual price in terms of their families lives those people who do pay that price want to change as well as all of us here who care about them the change starts with our calling for the end of the american taxpayer support of as well as the united states government support of three israeli occupation of palestinian lands all of us regardless of our nationalities of our religious affiliations seek a new policy in the middle east based on equal rights for all thank you amy goodman added yeah that was comedian roseanne barr and another story gambling on the future should california privatized a state lottery the california budget project published to report june ninth in conjunction with his many revision of the two thousand and seven two thousand and eight proposed budget governor arnold schwarzenegger proposes to leave the state lottery to a private contractor a new california budget project brief gambling on the future should california privatized the state lottery finds that any attempts to boost lottery sales would in