HEALTH POLITICS: Deja Betsy All Over Again
We're not sure where Betsy McCaughey will show up after the President's speech tonight, but we'd be surprised if we didn't hear from her... The Health Care Blog had a nice piece last weekweek. Here's a taste:
Betsy McCaughey's extravagant claims of eager Democratic euthanasiasts hiding behind health care reform have been exposed, eviscerated, and enshrined as just plain evil.
Of course, that's the kind of behavior you'd expect from Bad Betsy, the hyper-partisan political pit bull. But what about Good Betsy, the founder and chairman of the non-profit Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID)?
As someone who's been involved in the patient safety movement since the mid-1990s, I've admired her pugnacity and plainspokenness. Unfortunately, when I decided to look a lot more closely at RID, it turned out that Good Betsy was not quite "the real McCoy" either. The assertions she makes about herself and her organization teeter at the border between exaggeration and being deliberately misleading....
For some more background, here's Jim Fallows and Jon Cohn. She continued, however, undaunted, and helped give us the summer of death panels...
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It's easy to plant labels on people and erroneously associate them with things they never said. McCaughey researchs and talks about the issues much better than most.