Why is health care liar Michelle Bernard hosting an MSNBC special about health?
September 09, 2009 2:44 pm ET by Jamison Foser
According to the Orlando Sentinel, on September 20, "MSNBC political analyst Michelle Bernard" will moderate a two-hour special featuring Bill Cosby and NAACP president Ben Jealous, "focusing on the parenting, education and health issues facing the poor in the United States."
Michelle Bernard is a frequent MSNBC guest, particularly on Hardball.
Bernard is also the president and CEO of the conservative Independent Women's Forum, in which capacity she is busy spreading lies about health care.
Like this one: "More American women are going to die of breast cancer if you and I surrender to President Obama's nationalized healthcare onslaught."
Here's how FactCheck.org describes the health care lies coming from Bernard's IWF:
A False Appeal to Women's Fears
Republican-leaning group claims health care legislation could lead to 300,000 deaths from breast cancer, but uses old statistics, faulty logic and false insinuations.
A conservative group with Republican ties called the Independent Women's Forum is airing an ad that says "300,000 American women with breast cancer might have died" if our health care were "government run" like England's, citing the American Cancer Society as a source for the figure. In fact, a spokesman for the cancer society's advocacy arm says that figure is "not reliable" and adds: "[I]t's not one that we have ever cited; it's not one that we would ever cite." Furthermore, an epidemiologist with the cancer society told us that the way this figure was calculated was "really faulty."
There's much more, but the bottom line is clear: Michelle Bernard and the Independent Women's Forum are lying in order to stop health care reform.
So why is MSNBC turning to Bernard to moderate a two-hour special about, among other things, "health issues"?
Could it be that MSNBC is in favor of lying in order to stop health care reform?
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When I was sent to Afghanistan, my family switched from private insurance to Tricare. My wife's Ob/Gyn would not take Tricare so she switched doctors. On her first visit, the doctor took her family history (numerous family members have had breast cancer including her mother). The doctor ordered a mammogram (she was only 33 years old) and found pre-cancerous cells. Upon further testing, they found the cancer but caught it early. If we hadn’t switched to (government run) Tricare, my wife would not have had her first mammogram for another 7 years. Imagine how much the cancer could have grown in that time.
Tricare paid for everything (mastectomy, reconstruction, and tattooing) and the out of pocket expenses were capped at $1,000.00
Another question: Why is the NAACP participating, too?
This is a clear break-down of balance, and MSNBC should change who moderates this special.
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