Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan

Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped (into the stimulus bill) without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department. Full Story »

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by Dan Kennedy - Mar. 1, 2009

Betsy McCaughey has no standing to be writing about health-care reform. Her celebrated takedown of the Clinton health plan was, as James Fallows meticulously detailed in The Atlantic many years ago (see links), a fraudulent piece of journalism. To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, I would not trust one word that she writes, including "and" and "the."

According to Media Matters, McCaughey is up to her old tricks with her Bloomberg piece. The Media Matters analysis has already been submitted to NewsTrust, and you'll find it in the links. After I submitted this review, I realized that Fallows treated McCaughey's fraudulent journalism more fully in his book "Breaking the News" than he did in The Atlantic. Highly recommended.

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