Posted on 08/21/2009 2:26:24 PM PDT by steve-b
Betsy McCaughey -- an outspoken proponent of the myth that Democrats' health care reform proposals will lead to the creation of "death panels," as well as a former lieutenant governor of New York and adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute -- has stepped down from her position as a director of Cantel Medical Corp., which bills itself as a "leading provider of infection prevention and control products in the healthcare market."
From a press release:
CANTEL MEDICAL CORP. (NYSE: CMN -- News) announced that on August 20, 2009 it received a letter of resignation from Ms. Elizabeth McCaughey as a director of the Company. Ms. McCaughey, who had served as a director since 2005, stated that she was resigning to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest during the national debate over healthcare reform.McCaughey found herself the subject of widespread ridicule after an appearance on "The Daily Show" Thursday, during which host Jon Stewart aggressively challenged her positions on health care reform.
Are these the same mythical panels which Congress has offered to remove from the House bill?
Speak out against the Messiah, lose your food ration book.
Since Steve-b won’t answer, I will.
Yes.
Good. She deserved the ridicule.
Obviously Democrats simply can't be trusted when it comes to the safety of patients or doctor training.
No doubt there are yet other elements in one or the other of the various House committee versions of Obamacare that, if taken together, you'd find some true horrors ~ not excluding euthenasia.
We simply don't have time to find all the CR*P the Dems have loaded into those bills ~ so we need to rely on our experience with these people.
Huh.... I don’t suppose you could translate that endless opening sentence into English, could you?
Wow.
Jon Stewart didn’t have any facts. All he kept saying was that it’s dangerous to say things like what Betsy was saying, and the people protesting are getting their info from people like Betsy, which isn’t based on facts etc.
Death Panel “myth”? It sounds like DeLong might be an ObamaCorn bobblehead.
Death Panel “myth”? It sounds like DeLong might be an ObamaCorn bobblehead.
Did you read the bill? While it wasn’t NAMED “the death panel” her name for it is a good description.
No. These are the bureaucratic committees already signed into law with the rest of the economic stimulus package.
They aren’t myths. The media knows that. Tom Daschle has long proposed that a national board decide what medicines and surgeries should be covered and not covered based on economics and not what a doctor thinks is better. It was passed in the Stimulus Bill I think, hardly a myth.
As this reporter about the ‘Comnplete Lives Systems’, the new Death booklet at the VA and the statements made by Ezeke Emmanuel... the Presidents own Health Care Advisor
are those “myhts” too?
why?
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