Hannity cites rationing in U.K. to attack public option -- but U.S. insurance companies already ration care

Media Matters | Oct. 8, 2009 (News Analysis)

On his Fox News show, Sean Hannity attacked the public option by stating that "[e]verywhere socialized medicine has been tried it's failed. It ends up in rationing," and pointing to women with breast cancer in Great Britain who are denied drugs by "the government rationing body." But Hannity's attack that "the government option" would introduce rationing for "women with breast cancer" is undermined by the fact that private insurance companies in the United ... Full Story »

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 by Jo Bobenhouse Smith - Oct. 8, 2009

Personal health care stories are used to refute Hannity's incindiary claims.

As to syle of this article, I like to see more statistical facts to shore up the personal stories used to refute Hannity.

Insurance companies ration care by rescinding coverage. As former senior executive at CIGNA health insurance company Wendell Potter explained in ... More »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 8, 2009

The critique of habitual liar Sean Vanity is valid, but the large body of available support evidence and statistics are not invoked to support the critique. The anecdotes are pointed and appropriate.

The dental tangent is interesting, since medicare does not cover dental, and I have not heard whether the health care bill explicitly includes ... More »

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