FactCheck.org Gets It Wrong on Stimulus Package

PR Newswire by Betsy McCaughey | Mar. 2, 2009 (Opinion)

Robertson fails to explain why these health provisions were slipped into a stimulus package with no expert testimony and no opportunity for input by patient advocates, seniors, or physicians' groups. If these provisions are so good for patients, why avoid public scrutiny and debate? Secretary of HHS nominee Tom Daschle advised the president to do just that, even if it meant "attaching a health plan to the federal budget"....
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Posted by: Posted by Walter Cox - Mar 2, 2009 - 11:03 PM PST
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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Mar. 3, 2009

After reading Media Matters and Fact Check and wikipedia on Betsy McCaughey's article and right wing storm, this defense is again misleading and accuses of malicious intent to include provisions that she has imagined are in the text of a bill.

See wikipedia on her claims to be a Democrat, and her years ago attacks upon the Clinton health care plan.

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Walter Cox
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 by Walter Cox - Mar. 3, 2009

Betsy McCaughey kicked off what many hope will become a national debate on healthcare. Here she responds, with varying effectiveness, to a FactCheck critique of her earlier Bloomberg piece. McCaughey makes some good points, and she more carefully qualifies points made in the Bloomberg piece, however she fails directly to acknowledge that several of the Bloomberg points were overstated.

I admire Betsy McCaughey's dedication to heathcare issues. I would hope that she submits future articles to editorial review that will check for proper explanation and qualification of legitimate points.

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