Health Spectator

There are three videos here, so be patient. The first is nominally a debate between Betsy McCaughey and Anthony Weiner, but moderator/interviewer Dylan Ratigan gets heavily involved. This debate starts out well enough, but it turns into a bit of a free-for-all when Dylan Ratigan refuses to let Betsy McCaughey ignore his question and go off on a tangent to scare seniors with accusations about health care reform. McCaughey is obviously not used to being called on this tactic and becomes defensive.

Meanwhile, New York Representative Anthony Weiner continues to impress as an articulate spokesman for healthcare reform. This particular video may not provide you with lots of new information about healthcare reform, but it should at least make you aware of the attempts some are making to spread propaganda about some of the current healthcare reform bill’s provisions.

In a separate interview with Jon Stewart (below), McCaughey is credited with raising the issue from which Sarah Palin coined the phrase “death panels.” Stewart attempts to hold McCaughey to her task, though more gracefully than Ratigan. The amazing thing is the way McCaughey consumes the whole interview with evasive tactics, never actually coming to the point of demonstrating where in the bill the text she refers to allegedly exists. (It doesn’t.) The whole interview is a study in evasiveness.

But in Jon Stewart’s gracious and skillful hands, it becomes a hilarious commentary on the current healthcare reform debate. He and McCaughey part on friendly terms.

Below is the unedited Part 1 of the Betsy McCaughey interview with Jon Stewart.

Ready for more? Are you still waiting to hear where the health reform bill proposes to pull the plug on seniors? Below is the rest of the interview, uncut.

By the way, there are certain inaccuracies here that Stewart apparently doesn’t know about. When writing previous articles, we’ve checked on health care statistics from WHO and other sources. The method McCaughey uses here to correct for deaths due to violence and auto accidents, thereby establishing the U.S. as the #1 source of effective health care in the world does not work. In fact, the WHO has already thought of these issues and they are incorporated into the statistics WHO provides. Not only is no correction for violence and auto accidents necessary, attempting to do so results in inaccurate statistics. McCaughey is falsifying her evidence, and probably knows it.

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