Nick Kristof will write anything to further the ObamaCare agenda

Is there a Pulitzer Prize for shoddiness?

Today, I did something that Pulitzer Prize-winning NYTimes columnist Nick Kristof apparently didn’t do: I talked to a spokesman at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon.

I called them up after OHSU’s Dr. Johnny Delashaw left a comment about Kristof’s piece spotlighting the horrible plight of John Brodniak, an Oregon man with a neurological condition that he says no one would treat.

Kristof used Brodniak’s plight to argue for universal health care, decry Brodniak’s deadly lack of insurance (even though he got Medicaid coverage in August), and lambaste doctors for refusing to treat Brodniak due to low reimbursements.

Well, OHSU confirmed for me two things:

1) OHSU is a safety-net hospital not far from where Brodniak lives. The hospital accepts all Medicaid patients and would not turn Brodniak away.

Okay, are you ready for Number 2?

2) Brodniak is a patient at OHSU — and has been a patient there for the past three weeks.

In other words, at the time Kristof’s article was published this past Sunday, Brodniak was already being treated and cared for by some of the best neurologists in the country!

You need to read the entire piece and you need to pass it along. 

You need to understand that Climategate, though obviously not related in any way to the Kristof piece, is simply symptomatic of a much larger pattern.

You need to understand that liberals will lie through their teeth or as Rummy said yesterday, make bald misstatements, in their quest to foist an agenda.

And you need to understand that the MSM is a tool used to hoist it, carry it, and ensure that any opposition is neutered.

There is no substantive way to deny that premise.

None. 

Comments

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I despise these hit jobs trying to make our healthcare system look totally heartless and ineffective.

None of it is true. There may be exceptions, but the vast majority of practitioners and organizations will pull strings to do whatever they can to get the job done. Period.