McCaughey: Public Option "Health Care For The Healthy"

Patient advocate Dr. Betsy McCaughey joins Sean Hannity on a "Universal Nightmare" special to explain why some patients will be forced to join a government-run public otpion, and be subject to rationing.

"These are health care [plans] for the healthy," McCaughey says. "But when you're sick, it's not going to be there."

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[mrbhave]

I'm still waiting for the pay-per-view waterboarding of Hannity. But he's obviously too timid.

[scottyboyy]

Its hillarious! Hannity can't read 1000 pages so he assumes the elected officials cant either.

[billybob101013]

FUCK FOX NEWS THEY LIE

[watty024]

@emineid i don't have auto insurance. i don't have a car. that is my choice. is it my choice not to have a body? think before you ask questions.

[FenderGibsonWashburn]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[emineid]

Talk to your local hospital administrator. Any time they want to buy a $300,000 equipment or hire three $500,000 year specialists to be on call 24/7, they pull out "Yeah, it's expensive, but it's nothing compared to a million dollar lawsuit." Plus, the much of the CBO data you quote is from Texas, parts of which have INSANE malpractice atmosphere. Let the people who can benefit from tort reform reap the benefit, and leave the dead to bury the dead.

[goodfoot1971]

This lady's insinuation that ALL cases of cancer, diabetes, Heart disease are NOT preventable is just plain wrong!! Thanks Fox....lowered the journalistic bar again!!

[goodfoot1971]

Because, according to the CBO, tort reform would account for a 0.04% savings. That's four HUNDREDTHS of ONE PERCENT!!! That's not a partisan viewpoint, that's the guys that just crunch the numbers.

[emineid]

7. Why is tort reform not even on the table with this administration? When obstetricians in some states pay $40,000 a year and other states pay $200,000 a year for malpractice, where do you think this discrepancy is coming from? You don't want a situation where the judges and the attorneys in a state are all in it together to screw the doctors, like they have in Illinois. Wait, our President is from Illinois. So there may be no hope, after all.

[emineid]

6. "Cost savings this, cost savings that..." What patients and doctors consider good medicine is expensive. Increase the wealth of the nation, increase the productivity of each person in the US, and we can pay for some of the increase in medical cost.

[emineid]

5. "Other countries have universal coverage..." Yes, even Honduras has universal coverage on paper. But you go there and so many people have poor health! It's easy for a government to hand out some sub-Medicaid card to everyone and say "We have universal coverage." Good luck getting doctors to see these patients, when most private doctors shuck Medicaid, even Medicare patients.

[emineid]

4. "Medicine is expensive because of evil insurance companies." Guess what? Medicine is expensive because the standard of care requires doctors to do expensive things. Any time someone says "chest pain," you've got an overnight ER workup, at the very least. Medicine is expensive because doctors order expensive tests and treatments. It ain't gonna change until all the Ivy League department chairmen say in unison, "Oh, you don't need elective heart cath" and establish cost-saving standard of care.