Tag Archives: Conservatives for Patients’ Rights

New Ad, Old Claims

Posted on December 1, 2009

Conservatives for Patients’ Rights is out with a new ad, airing on CNN and Fox News, that repeats a few of the group’s claims about a federal health insurance plan: that it could prevent people from keeping their doctor or their health insurance. The narrator of the ad says that 14 …
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TGIF

Posted on September 11, 2009

The last weekend of summer may have knocked a day off of the work week, but the false and misleading claims didn’t take a break. As always, we were on the case. The highlight of the week, of course, was President Obama’s Sept. 9 address on health care to a …
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‘No Guarantee’ — With Plan, or Without

Posted on September 9, 2009

Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, whose ads we have faulted in the past, is airing a new spot that calls for dropping any federal insurance option from the health care overhaul bills. "Despite what the president or Congress say," the narrator tells us, "their health care proposals do not guarantee you …
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CPR Administers Bad Facts, Again

Posted on August 3, 2009

The latest ad from the group Conservatives for Patients’ Rights claims that “new rules could hike your health insurance premiums 95 percent.” That’s misleading. The claim in the ad refers to only 5 percent of Americans who have health insurance – those who buy it on their own. The claim comes from an analysis by a group that advocates for …
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More Health Care Scare

Posted on June 11, 2009

A new ad from Conservatives for Patients’ Rights says that a public health insurance plan now being proposed in Congress “could crush all your other choices, driving them out of existence, resulting in 119 million off their current insurance coverage.” That’s misleading. The 119 million figure comes from an analysis …
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Health Care Battle, Infomercial-Style

Posted on June 1, 2009

The group Conservatives for Patients’ Rights has produced a 30-minute documentary-style commercial, which aired May 31 on NBC after “Meet the Press.” Hosted by former CNN anchor Gene Randall, the program, labeled “paid programming” throughout, was a very lengthy version of ads the group has run criticizing government-run health care …
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