A Triumph of Misinformation

Atlantic Monthly by James Fallows | Jan. 1, 1995 (Special Report)

In claiming that the bill would make it impossible to go outside the health plan or pay doctors on one's own, [Betsy McCaughey] had apparently skipped past practically the first provision of the bill (Sec. 1003), which said, "Nothing in this Act shall be construed as prohibiting the following: (1) An individual from purchasing any health care services." Full Story »

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 by Dan Kennedy - Feb. 11, 2009

The definitive analysis of what went wrong with the Clinton health-care plan. It includes a deconstruction of Betsy McCaughey's infamously inaccurate article in The New Republic.

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