On last Thursday night’s episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,
Betsy McCaughey, renowned Obamacare critic and inventor of the infamous
and fictitious ‘death panels,’ was supposed to make a guest appearance
during a correspondent segment on the Affordable Care Act. After she sat
down with Jordan Klepper for an interview to be used in the segment,
titled ‘The Obamacare Apocalypse,’ she abruptly left after she was asked
how do critics respond to all of the good news that has surrounded the
law since its implementation and the fact that fewer and fewer people
want to see it repealed. Instead of answering Klepper, McCaughey pulled
off her microphone and left.
Below is video of the segment, courtesy of Comedy Central (McCaughey appears about one minute in):
The exchange between McCaughey and Klepper went as follows:
KLEPPER: It’s been a tough road for critics of this law. The people aren’t behind repealing this — are we gonna get them on our side?MCCAUGHEY: (removes microphone) I wanna just turn this off for a second.KLEPPER (voiceover): But she was too upset to talk about it.
The rest of the segment consisted of Klepper talking
to a nurse who no longer has to run a free clinic because all of her
patients were able to get health insurance through the Affordable Care
Act and can see a doctor in a fully-staffed office anytime they want.
Klepper also spoke to some of the nurse’s former patients who had
nothing but good things to say about the health care law. Overall, the
segment was a biting satire about how predictions of doom and ‘death
panels’ regarding Obamacare have not come to fruition and critics of the
law are now left with nothing to complain about.
As for McCaughey, she is still chugging along,
writing uninformative tripe on conservative websites trying to convince
the already converted that Obamacare, and pretty much anything Obama
does, will be the death of Western Civilization. She writes a weekly hack-piece for Newsmax, wingnut rag. McCaughey also appears now and then on
Faux News, particularly when they need someone to spew propaganda against
the ACA. However, outside of wingnut circles, her credibility is nil. The ‘death panel’ claim was rated as PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year in 2009. Also, in 2009, Jon Stewart famously skewered her
over her claims that the health care law would call for senior citizen
review boards where life expectancy would be discussed with patients.
Now, with the health care law fully implemented, and
the benefits of it being realized by people on a daily basis,
fearmongering about Obamacare fantasies may not be profitable anymore
for wingnut shrieking heads. That is bad news for people like
McCaughey, but good news for the American public.
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