Republican Candidates Making Stuff Up: Not News
So, Rudy Giuliani has a new radio ad out, talking about how he had prostate cancer, and how much better Americian care and insurance is as opposed to Europe, in this case "England". Presumably to attack any kind of government involvement in health care. Except his numbers are completely wrong, and survival rates are nearly identical in the US and UK. And this was while he was mayor of New York, with government provided insurance. And for bonus points, the surgery was invented in Denmark.
To quote Ezra Klein: "So Giuliani's case for the superiority of our "free market" health care system goes something like this: While on health insurance provided by New York state, he was treated, using a surgery developed by Europeans, for prostate cancer, a disease that most commonly afflicts those covered by the federal government's single-payer health care system. Take that, Europe/national health insurance."
Kevin Drum has some pretty graphs.
Of course, this lie is a lot less scary than the fact Giuliani's main foreign affairs advisors are drawn from the ranks of the people who pushed the hardest for the invasion of Iraq. We really really don't need any more wars. Besides the fact that you'd think the outcome of Iraq would have proved that all of the people who pushed for it are completely wrong, or liars, or both. Neither of which are great recommendations for advisors.
And in other news, Fred Thompson is playing up to the paranoia of the NRA by claiming the UN plans to take away people's guns. This isn't true. Shocking, I know.
You'd think that'd be the kind of thing reporters who like playing "gotcha" would be all over. Funny how they're not.
To quote Ezra Klein: "So Giuliani's case for the superiority of our "free market" health care system goes something like this: While on health insurance provided by New York state, he was treated, using a surgery developed by Europeans, for prostate cancer, a disease that most commonly afflicts those covered by the federal government's single-payer health care system. Take that, Europe/national health insurance."
Kevin Drum has some pretty graphs.
Of course, this lie is a lot less scary than the fact Giuliani's main foreign affairs advisors are drawn from the ranks of the people who pushed the hardest for the invasion of Iraq. We really really don't need any more wars. Besides the fact that you'd think the outcome of Iraq would have proved that all of the people who pushed for it are completely wrong, or liars, or both. Neither of which are great recommendations for advisors.
And in other news, Fred Thompson is playing up to the paranoia of the NRA by claiming the UN plans to take away people's guns. This isn't true. Shocking, I know.
You'd think that'd be the kind of thing reporters who like playing "gotcha" would be all over. Funny how they're not.