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Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:18 AM

Betsy McCaughey

Type: Person

Name: Betsy McCaughey

First Reported 11/15/2009 - Updated 11/15/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Sarah Palin

The Birth of Death Panels

A Congressman offers a lesson today about how politics and the media collude to distort rational discussion. In an Op Ed, Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon explains how his bipartisan proposal to have Medicare pay for voluntary end-of-life discussions morphed ... [The Moderate Voice - 11/15/2009]

Entities: Medicare, Betsy McCaughey, Sarah Palin, Republican Party (US)

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Antonin Scalia

Congress and its healthcare malfeasance

After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, private meetings in the back rooms of the Capitol, murky obfuscation, misleading statements and outright mistruths, and other varieties of objectionable behavior, the Speaker of the House of Representatives finally ... [EnerPub - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Malfeasance, Health Care, Antonin Scalia

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 2 Documents

Michael Jackson

Bachmann, Other Gargoyles To Throw Terrifying ‘Harass Yr Representative’ Party, Thursday

Person for whom there are no more nicknames Michele Bachmann is teaming up with the #1 asshole in Congress, Iowa’s Steve King, to throw “a big party” on the National Mall this Thursday against health care reform, the worst idea since 9/11 and, before ... [Wonkette - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Michele Bachmann, Mark Levin, Betsy McCaughey, Dictatorship, Michael Jackson

First Reported 10/24/2009 - Updated 10/25/2009 - 3 Documents (in Medicine)

CIGNA Corporation

Health Care Delusions, Left and Right

If you've been following the health care debate over the last couple of years, you may have heard the grim tale of Nataline Sarkisyan. Just 17 years old, afflicted with leukemia, she needed a liver transplant, but the insurance company Cigna refused to ... [Creators.Com - 10/25/2009]

Entities: Health Care, CIGNA Corporation, Steve Chapman, Medicare, John Edwards

First Reported 11/09/2009 - Updated 11/10/2009 - 2 Documents

Current 'Death Panel' Uproar Echoes Decades-Old Controversy

It was early summer. A senior federal health official wrote a memo suggesting that living wills -- documents that can convey patients' wishes about when to end life support -- could help curb health-care costs.The memo leaked to the media. By August, ... [Kaiser Health News - 11/10/2009]

Entities: Uproar Inc, Accusations, Betsy McCaughey

First Reported 11/09/2009 - Updated 11/09/2009 - 2 Documents (in Medicine)

A Prescription for the Healers

I hope readers take the time to read David Leonhardt’s terrific Sunday New York Times Magazine piece on Intermountain Healthcare. It is a great introduction to the changes that organized medicine must adopt to deliver team- and evidence-based care. (I ... [The New Republic Online - 11/09/2009]

Entities: Jerome Groopman, Mark Fields, David Leonhardt

First Reported 11/11/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

The Absolutely Worst Bill Ever

" TheWorst Bill Ever ." That is the title the always calm andrational Wall Street Journal put on itseditorial on November 1 about the government health care takeoverbill that passed the House last week on virtually a party linevote, 220-215. But even ... [American Spectator - 11/11/2009]

Entities: Medicare, Health Insurance, Health Care

First Reported 11/10/2009 - Updated 11/10/2009 - 1 Documents

Feldstein: Pelosi Bill Raises Cost of All Insurance

Former Reagan White House economic adviser and Harvard professor Martin Feldstein reckons that the proposed healthcare reforms in the House bill passed under Democratic speaker Nancy Pelosi could have the "unintended consequences" of raising health insurance ... [Moneynews - 11/10/2009]

Entities: Martin Feldstein, Health Insurance, Betsy McCaughey

First Reported 11/11/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 1 Documents

Why not pay for what works?

If this was Betsy McCaughey's intent, she is fiendishly clever. By taking science and evidence out, she has left voters with a choice between paying for political voodoo or keeping the present wasteful system alive. ... [ZDNet Blogs - 11/11/2009]

Entities: Betsy McCaughey, Voodoo

First Reported 11/11/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 1 Documents (in Medicine)

Why not pay for what works?

In all the hullabaloo over health reform, Charles Silver and David Hyman a key point of cost control has been lost.Paying only for what works.Silver and Hyman are law professors, not doctors. They point to a RAND Corp. study saying that one-third or ... [ZDNet - 11/11/2009]

Entities: Silver, In Vitro Fertilisation, David Hyman, Christian Science, Betsy McCaughey

First Reported 10/25/2009 - Updated 10/25/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Health Care Legislation: What's True, What's Not

Communities - Health InformaticsConfusing claims have animated the national debate over changes in the health care system.To complicate matters, there is no clear-cut "Obama plan" or "Democratic plan." Obama has listed several goals, but he has drawn ... [Medicexchange.com - 10/25/2009]

Entities: Health Care, Abortion, Charles Rangel, Jim DeMint, Informatics

First Reported 10/26/2009 - Updated 10/26/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

U.S. Government Formulation Used to Fight Bio-Terrorism is Released For Retail Sale to Fight H1N1

BIO-RESCUE immediately and completely kills/neutralizes a wide bacterial, biological, viral, and chemical threats, including WMDs such as Anthrax, Ricin, Sarin, H1N5, H1N1, Black Plague, Hoof and Mouth, SARS etc.,FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPRLog (Press Release) ... [Prlog - 10/26/2009]

Entities: Biological terrorism, Influenza A H1N1 Virus, Decontamination, Ricin

Quotes

...of RID (‘Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths') has identified one serious problem at hospitals-the lack of clean uniforms, scrubs or lab coats. "superbugs such as staph can live on these polyester coats for us to 56 days" McCaughey says

U.S. Government Formulation Used to Fight Bio-Terrorism is Released For Retail Sale to Fight H1N1 [Prlog - 10/26/2009]

More Content

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Media Disseminated Myths about Obamacare [Boston IMC - 11/19/2009]
Congress and its healthcare malfeasance [EnerPub - 11/19/2009]
Borger: Is he really Dr. Death? [CNN - 11/18/2009]
Is this man really Dr. Death? [CNN - 11/18/2009]
Why not pay for what works? [ZDNet - 11/11/2009]
The Absolutely Worst Bill Ever [American Spectator - 11/11/2009]
Feldstein: Pelosi Bill Raises Cost of All Insur... [Moneynews - 11/10/2009]
Current 'Death Panel' Uproar Echoes Decades-Old... [Kaiser Health News - 11/10/2009]
'Death Panel' Flap Echoes Decades-Old Controversy [NPR - 11/09/2009]
A Prescription for the Healers [The New Republic Online - 11/09/2009]
House Health Care Bill Actually About As Long A... [The Huffington Post \| Full News Feed - 11/09/2009]
McCaughey: Pelosi Bill Has Radical Agenda [NewsMax.com - 11/09/2009]
McCaughey: Pelosi Bill's Radical Agenda Revealed [NewsMax.com - 11/07/2009]
Schedule of Bachmann's "House Call" [Politico - 11/05/2009]
We the People to come knocking on Congress door [Canada Free Press - 11/04/2009]
Unfair 'death panel' myth distorts health care ... [Detroit News - 11/01/2009]
'Death panels' myth just won't die [Chicago Tribune - 10/31/2009]
Get The Truth About The Health Bills [Street Insider - 10/30/2009]
U.S. Government Formulation Used to Fight Bio-T... [Prlog - 10/26/2009]
Health Care Delusions, Left and Right [Creators.Com - 10/25/2009]
Health Care Legislation: What's True, What's Not [Medicexchange.com - 10/25/2009]
Steve Chapman: Health care myths, both left and... [Chicago Tribune - 10/24/2009]
Health care myths, both left and right [Chicago Tribune - 10/24/2009]
Media Matters coordinates campaign against 'let... [Politico - 10/23/2009]
Experts: Obamacare Will Erode Medical Quality [NewsMax.com - 10/23/2009]
Senior Citizens Group Pledges To "Re-Evalu... [The Huffington Post \| Full News Feed - 10/21/2009]
Senior Citizens League Mailer The Holy Grail Of... [The Huffington Post \| Full News Feed - 10/20/2009]
Media Notes: Start-ups multiple [Washington Post - 10/19/2009]
Dick's Daughter Takes It Up a Notch [The New Republic Online - 10/14/2009]
Does good Betsy McCaughey exist? [ZDNet - 09/08/2009]

Blogs

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There is NO Death Panel in the Obamacare Bill: ... [YID With LID - 11/16/2009] Sarah Palin and anyone else who claims that their are death panels in the Obamacare bill are way off base. There are no death panels called for in either the House ...
The Birth of Death Panels [The Moderate Voice - 11/15/2009] A Congressman offers a lesson today about how politics and the media collude to distort rational discussion. In an Op Ed, Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon explains ...
Why not pay for what works? [ZDNet Blogs - 11/11/2009] If this was Betsy McCaughey's intent, she is fiendishly clever. By taking science and evidence out, she has left voters with a choice between paying for political ...
Greg Hengler: What the Pelosi Health-Care Bill ... [Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog - 11/09/2009] This is the best "what's in the bill" piece I've seen thus far. Betsy McCaughey writes for the WSJ. Here's how it begins:What the government will require you to ...
A Prescription for the Healers [The New Republic - The Plank Feed - 11/09/2009] I hope readers take the time to read David Leonhardt’s terrific Sunday New York Times Magazine piece on Intermountain Healthcare. It is a great introduction to the ...

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