Health Care Expert: ObamaCare Will Kill Estimated 40,000 Seniors Every Year

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Betsy McCaughey is the former lieutenant governor of New York. She has a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her Web site is DefendYourHealthCare.com and she is the author of The Obama Health Law: What It Says and How to Overturn It.

Today at Newt Gingrich’s “Newt University” conference, Dr. McCaughey explained that the “skimpy care” that Obama’s health law would impose on Medicare hospital patients “is likely to cause an estimated 40,000 unnecessary deaths each year.” As she explained in a brief video interview with me today, this is not a political charge, but is based on evidence from extensive medical research. Here’s the video — let’s make it viral:y

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59 comments

  1. Hey, Stacy, you had a little trouble keeping the Betsy’s face in frame… You kept cutting the top of her head off as the pan dropped a bit…

  9. First time in memory that RSM mentioned Newt Gingrich’s name without exhibiting irrational, Chris Matthews-esque spittle-ridden vituperation. So the condition is curable, perhaps.

  20. Yeah, Red. Me, it’s a face palm.

    Enough already, guys. That’s a good video. Slap paper over the lower half of the screen, if that helps any.

  22. Some of the comments are a bit off-topic here. The lady has a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and is providing a quite newsworthy critique of government policy.

  28. Yeah, that place that let in Obama? Was it from the Agricultural college like Olbermann’s degree?

    I remember her as Lt. Gov., she was a freakin’ embarrassment. Guess there’s hope for Akin to be rehabilitated, too, eh?

  29. So guess how many old folks over 65 use the internet and will ever see this. Ya, thats right,good luck with getting this message out to the geezers. On the other hand,,,SQUIRELL!!

  30. The answer to your question is: a hell of a lot. Seniors have time, money, and expansive knowledge in many subject areas, the three things the vast majority of youth do not have in any substantial way, other than the unemployed , who have time, but obviously shouldn’t waste it on the internet.

    And it’s not just seniors here in the US. Rural seniors in India, who lived in villages that never had as much as a phone, are comfortable complaining about download speeds on the internet when getting photos of their grandkids.

    You should do more research.

  31. She’s also been on Levin’s program a few times, and has his respect. I visited her website, and she has a lot of info there.

    I’ll wager she knows more about Obama’s destructive “health care” law than most conservatives.

  33. Exactly. Not trying to take away from her background or expertise. I blame Stacy’s poor camera skills or perhaps his expert camera skills 🙂

  34. Stacy, Im A CRNA and have been for 33 yrs., You can’t take at first 500 and now over 7oo bil from Medicare and not have rationing. You really don’t think that Ocare is a coindence just as the Baby Bommers need it do you? This is in line with everything envirnomentalists want which is population control. BTW, it’s never been mentioned but who will make up the IPAB…bet it won’t be MD’s

  37. My parents are in their mid-eighties and I can testify that the majority of their friends have Internet skills – I know because once they hear I used to run an IT department, they always ask for advice.

  39. And here I thought you were trying to make excuses. I had no doubt of Stacy’s professionalism I just thought you were succumbing to the crasses. My apologies Bob 😉

  41. I thought his camera skills were adequate. I just think this post is chock full of dudes that can’t take their mind off the fact that she’s a large breasted woman in a v-cut top.

  47. I read this and then I watched the video. You’re wrong. The camera pan stays focused on her face. At no time does the camera focus drop.

  50. Yep. I’m lucky to have a few other relatives who field more of the family computer emergencies than I do.

    I just tell everyone I hate computers and they laugh nervously then call the other cousins.

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