Comments on: Who Is Behind Right-Wing’s Health Care Hysteria? http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/11/betsy-mccaughey/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: lynn http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/11/betsy-mccaughey/comment-page-1/#comment-57764 lynn Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:41:42 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/11/betsy-mccaughey/#comment-57764 My chiropractor mailed all her patients a copy of Betsy McCaughey's Bloomberg article with a cover letter stating that she would have to close her chiropractic practicebecause it would be illegal to pay her as private individuals. She believes this & is telling her patients this!! Who is going out there to counter Betsy's lies (and the lies of those who are paying her?) We need a spokesperson now! My chiropractor mailed all her patients a copy of Betsy McCaughey’s Bloomberg article with a cover letter stating that she would have to close her chiropractic practicebecause it would be illegal to pay her as private individuals.
She believes this & is telling her patients this!!
Who is going out there to counter Betsy’s lies (and the lies of those who are paying her?) We need a spokesperson now!

]]> By: Mrs. Hanna http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/11/betsy-mccaughey/comment-page-1/#comment-57619 Mrs. Hanna Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:58:47 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/11/betsy-mccaughey/#comment-57619 Once again, Betsy McCaughey is using selective quotes and faulty reasoning to scare Americans away from real solutions to the health care mess. Looking more and more like a Fox News bimbo, Ms McCaughey is doing her damnedest to distort the Obama administration's health care policies. CNN and MSNBC both aired reports that analyzed how she was manipulating the truth. This is the same woman who lied about the Clinton health care initiative and helped to sink any hope for universal health care in America in the 1990s. You'd would think she would be wearing sack cloth and ashes in repentance, but apparently she's still ready to work on behalf of the health insurance and drug industries -- and against ordinary Americans. As someone who pays $20 a pill for one of my prescriptions, all I can say is "Heck of a job Betsy!" Once again, Betsy McCaughey is using selective quotes and faulty reasoning to scare Americans away from real solutions to the health care mess.

Looking more and more like a Fox News bimbo, Ms McCaughey is doing her damnedest to distort the Obama administration’s health care policies. CNN and MSNBC both aired reports that analyzed how she was manipulating the truth.

This is the same woman who lied about the Clinton health care initiative and helped to sink any hope for universal health care in America in the 1990s. You’d would think she would be wearing sack cloth and ashes in repentance, but apparently she’s still ready to work on behalf of the health insurance and drug industries — and against ordinary Americans.

As someone who pays $20 a pill for one of my prescriptions, all I can say is “Heck of a job Betsy!”

]]> By: Chuck http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/11/betsy-mccaughey/comment-page-1/#comment-38174 Chuck Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:31:51 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/11/betsy-mccaughey/#comment-38174 The right wing is absolutely scared stiff of the Health IT provisions? Why? Because it will be an incredible boost to the quality of healthcare, patients will come to wonder how we ever lived without it, as will physicians. Medical practice is backward and needs to be modernized. And above all - Democrats will get the credit for creating this, and THAT is what the right wing is so paranoid about. That's the issue here. This program has almost universal support. The only details that has any controversy are the privacy provisions, with pressure from the ACLU. These will be worked out and the Bill addresses it. When the extreme right and the ACLU agree, and the vast middle is on the other side, you know the extremes have gone crazy. The right wing is absolutely scared stiff of the Health IT provisions? Why? Because it will be an incredible boost to the quality of healthcare, patients will come to wonder how we ever lived without it, as will physicians. Medical practice is backward and needs to be modernized. And above all – Democrats will get the credit for creating this, and THAT is what the right wing is so paranoid about.

That’s the issue here. This program has almost universal support. The only details that has any controversy are the privacy provisions, with pressure from the ACLU. These will be worked out and the Bill addresses it.

When the extreme right and the ACLU agree, and the vast middle is on the other side, you know the extremes have gone crazy.

]]> By: Adam http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/11/betsy-mccaughey/comment-page-1/#comment-37497 Adam Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:30:35 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/11/betsy-mccaughey/#comment-37497 I say "good for Betsy McCaughey"! I think she did an excellent review and commentary on the ....uhm ..Stimulus Bull S--T. Miss McCaughey took quotes from Tom Dashal's book and tied it directly to the language in the bill. This bill is a farce and reeks of Socialized Medicine which has no place in the United States. Thank you Betsy! Keep up the good work!! Adam I say “good for Betsy McCaughey”! I think she did an excellent review and commentary on the ….uhm ..Stimulus Bull S–T. Miss McCaughey took quotes from Tom Dashal’s book and tied it directly to the language in the bill. This bill is a farce and reeks of Socialized Medicine which has no place in the United States. Thank you Betsy! Keep up the good work!!
Adam

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