Obama Dooms Seniors to Ravages of Aging
By Betsy McCaughey On Oct. 1, the Obama administration started awarding bonus points to hospitals that spend the least on elderly patients. It will result in fewer knee replacements, hip replacements, angioplasty, bypass surgery and cataract operations. These are the five procedures that have transformed aging for older Americans. They used to languish in wheelchairs and nursing
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Obama’s Medicare Cuts: Real and Deadly
By Betsy McCaughey Expect Joe Biden to tee up Medicare in tonight’s debate against Paul Ryan. In campaign stops this week, the vice president repeatedly harangued that the Romney/Ryan ticket “says that we’re cutting Medicare. Nothing could be further from the truth.” Sorry, Joe: It’s exactly the truth. The Congressional Budget Office confirms that the Obama health
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Each Year Tens of Thousands of Seniors Are Likely To Die Because of Obamacare’s Cuts to Hospitals
By Betsy McCaughey President Obama is wooing seniors with promises to protect Medicare as they’ve known it. On the defensive because of the $716 billion his health care law takes from Medicare, Obama assures seniors he’s cutting payments to hospitals and other providers, not their benefits. Don’t be bamboozled. It’s illogical to think that reducing
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Cuts to Hospitals Cut Seniors’ Lives
By Todd Beamon and John Bachman Constitutional scholar and patient advocate Betsy McCaughey tells Newsmax. TV that more seniors will lose their lives under Obamacare because they will be treated at substandard hospitals. “The Obama health law takes $716 billion out of future Medicare funding and shifts it over to fund entitlements for people under
Read MoreRyan Duels on Medicare: Scientific Evidence Proves He’s Right
By Betsy McCaughey Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan (R. Wisconsin) set the record straight on Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention, warning that “the most powerful threat to Medicare is Obamacare.” Scientific evidence proves that’s true. The provider cuts in Obamacare are deadly. If Ryan and presidential candidate Mitt Romney can cut through the
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Science Shows Why Granny Should Be Scared
By Betsy McCaughey President Obama is criss-crossing the country, warning that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would “end Medicare as we know it.” Attention, New York’s 3 million seniors: Don’t be fooled. It’s the Obama health law that destroyed Medicare, though the impact will not be felt for another year or more. Scientific evidence indicates
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Harry Reid’s Biggest Lie
By Betsy McCaughey Defenders of President Obama’s health law are flaunting a Congressional Budget Office claim that overturning the law would worsen the federal deficit. Repeal, said a CBO report late last month, would cancel $890 billion in new entitlement spending but eliminate revenues of even greater magnitude. Don’t be bamboozled. Even if it were
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Message to GOP: It’s Not a Tax
By Betsy McCaughey Republican politicians, including presidential contender Mitt Romney, should stop calling the ObamaCare penalty a tax. It is not a tax. Calling it a tax legitimizes Chief Justice John Roberts’ twisted decision, adding credibility to the dangerous notion that Congress can tax us to force us to do almost anything. That’s too high a
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Ruling Moves Health Care Toward ‘Socialist’ System
By Nick Tate Betsy McCaughey, former lieutenant governor of New York and a leading critic of Obamacare, said the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of the law moves the nation one step closer to a European-styled “socialist” health care system. McCaughey, author of “The Obama Health Law: What It Says and How to Overturn It,”
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They’re Still Lying About Obamacare
By Betsy McCaughey In the runup to today’s Supreme Court ruling on the Obama health law, the White House launched a series of ads on the controversial law’s virtues, as if to say to the public, “You’ll be sorry.” Don’t be bamboozled. The ads spotlight two provisions: one protecting Americans with preexisting conditions, the other
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