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On Hannity, McCaughey falsely claims stimulus provision would "deliver protocols that will tell your doctor to limit care to what the government's advisers deem cost-effective"

March 27, 2009 10:24 pm ET by Media Matters staff

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Previously:

County Fair: CNN medical correspondent debunks McCaughey falsehood making rounds in conservative media

Limbaugh repeats health IT falsehood from Bloomberg "commentary" on House recovery bill

Tags: Fox News Channel, Hannity, Betsy McCaughey

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- by mk3872 (March 28, 2009 12:48 am ET)
  
  She's baaaaack ... and shilling again for the pharma industry
  
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  - by foghornleghorn (March 28, 2009 12:43 pm ET)
    
    I'm assuming the latest check she got in the mail has been cleared and deposited.
    
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- by MickD (March 28, 2009 6:10 am ET)
  
  This is always easy for the healthy and well-insured to say. Is karma ever going to be on this country's side?
  
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- by magnolialover (March 28, 2009 12:16 pm ET)
  
  Thing is, this has been proven false, time and again.
  They keep drilling this, but it's just not true.
  
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- by mfinn7314 (March 30, 2009 7:46 am ET)
  
  This woman needs to be exposed more than she has. MMfA has done it's job as far as it can go I suppose but I fear there are far too many people not getting that message and believing her and the talking heads like Hannity. How does this get exposed to a much wider audience?
  
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