deverahn
02-13-2009, 09:23 AM
Please read up on the sneaky bill that is being slid into the Obama's Stimulus package. HR 1 EH. It will electronically track all of your medical records and history which may have its positives but it also includes that the Federal gov can decide what is deems as appropriate and cost effective with your treatment. There has been no substanial national discussion around this part of the "package". Betsy McCoughey Ross has read the long propsal, studied it, and is trying to bring our attention to it. If you google her name or the bill you can read more about it. PLEASE DO! I would like to call, write, petition on this, although I am not sure where to start. If you have advice and or numbers to forward on that would be great. Thanks, Dev
PeriodThree
02-13-2009, 12:00 PM
Her commentary on the Stimulus Bill says things about the bill which are absolutely not in the bill. She is basically making things up. Her legitimate disagreements with the bill center around her carrying water for the Pharmaceutical Industry to quash efforts to actually look at the effectiveness of different treatments.
The Pharmaceutical Industry does not want the government to create a system in which patients, citizens, and government have the tools to compare the effectiveness and expense of different treatment options.
Betsy McCaughey Ross (not McCoughey) works for a right wing think tank, The Hudson Institute, which is funded by Eli Lilly and Company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Lilly_and_Company), Monsanto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto), DuPont (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont), Dow-Elanco (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dow-Elanco&action=edit&redlink=1), Sandoz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandoz), Ciba-Geigy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciba-Geigy), ConAgra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConAgra), Cargill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargill), and Procter & Gamble (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procter_%26_Gamble). While taking money from 'food' companies the Hudson Institute attacks organic farming.
She also wrote an editorial in the New Republic about the Clinton health plan which won a National Magazine Award, but which was filled with so many misstatements that "The New Republic ultimately recanted the story and apologized for it." Lots of things went wrong in the effort to enact the Clinton plan, but a reasonably large share of the blame for why there are 40+ million Americans without Health Insurance belongs to Ross.
Betsy McCaughey Ross
Betsy McCaughey Ross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_McCaughey_Ross)
The Hudson Institute:
Hudson Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Institute)
Please read up on the sneaky bill that is being slid into the Obama's Stimulus package. HR 1 EH. It will electronically track all of your medical records and history which may have its positives but it also includes that the Federal gov can decide what is deems as appropriate and cost effective with your treatment. There has been no substanial national discussion around this part of the "package". Betsy McCoughey Ross has read the long propsal, studied it, and is trying to bring our attention to it. If you google her name or the bill you can read more about it. PLEASE DO! I would like to call, write, petition on this, although I am not sure where to start. If you have advice and or numbers to forward on that would be great. Thanks, Dev
Dynamique
02-13-2009, 11:30 PM
The Progress Report of Feb. 11th had a summary of this portion of the economic stimulus bill, the neo-con mouthpiece smear/disinformation campaign, and why "health I.T belongs in [the] recovery package."
You can read it for yourself here:
Health Care -- Misinformation On Health Information Technology (https://pr.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/pr20090211)
Her commentary on the Stimulus Bill says things about the bill which are absolutely not in the bill. She is basically making things up. Her legitimate disagreements with the bill center around her carrying water for the Pharmaceutical Industry to quash efforts to actually look at the effectiveness of different treatments.
The Pharmaceutical Industry does not want the government to create a system in which patients, citizens, and government have the tools to compare the effectiveness and expense of different treatment options. ...