McCaughey “Death Panel” Myth Creator Resigns

Cantel Medical Corporation, in a corporate press release dated August 20, 2009, stated that Betsy McCaughey, a corporate director who created the myth that U.S. healthcare reform would lead to the formation of “Death Panels“, allowing doctors to decide who would live and who would die based on the cost of end-of-life care, had resigned effective immediately from Cantel’s board of directors.

McCaughey insists that health-care reform is bad for Americans generally and will severely impact the elderly and of course limit the amount of funds a doctor can expect to be reimbursed, which would directly impact Cantel’s profitability.

McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York State and has weighed in heavily against health-care for Americans, creating the conflict of interest with her employer who wishes to create the appearance of neutrality.

In fact, Cantel bills itself as a “leading provider of infection prevention and control products in the healthcare market” and has an urgent corporate need to prevent health-care reform from occurring in the U.S.

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