Report: ‘Death panels’ author worked with big tobacco to scuttle health reform

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/20/death-panels-author-big-tobacco/

By Daniel Tencer

Published: September 20, 2009
Updated 2 hours ago

The person credited with inventing the “death panels” claim about health care reform worked with tobacco giant Phillip Morris to railroad health care reform in the Clinton administration, Rolling Stone magazine reports.

In an article in the magazine’s October 1 issue, not yet available online, writer Tim Dickinson reveals that Phillip Morris “worked off-the-record with … writer Betsy McCaughey as part of the input to the three-part expose in The New Republic on what the Clinton plan means,” Rolling Stone reports.

[HopeHoops]

1. Well now THERE is a surprise!

I'm just SO SHOCKED!
:sarcasm:

[donheld]

2. I just read the same thing in Rolling Stone

[jemelanson]

3. starting a list of people to keep track of what they are up to

if for no other reason than just to see what they are trying to keep from going forward.