"Van Susteren allowed Brown to falsely suggest health reform will limit mammograms, pap smears"

[TomCADem]

Its a Fox News twofer, as reported by Media Matters. Greta Van Susteren allows Brown to smear Martha Coakley and spread mis-information about health care reform:

http://mediamatters.org/research/201001120004

From the January 11 edition of On the Record:

VAN SUSTEREN: All right, what do you two agree on, because I know there's some area of agreement? What do you and Martha Coakley agree on, and what is the biggest difference between the two of you?

BROWN: The biggest difference is her position on taxing and spending, and the fact that she is pushing a health care bill that is bad for Massachusetts because we already have 98 percent of our people insured. We have already done what the government, the federal government is trying to do.

And why would we in fact have a one size fits all national plan that is going to put Massachusetts businesses out of business and give us longer lines, a half a trillion in Medicare cuts, Tri-Care for veterans is going to be affected. And then just the fact that a lot of the panels that are starting and the having mammograms go from, you know, 40 to 50 and pap smear testing.

There are a whole lot of things that are just bad. We really need to start again.

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Fact: Health reform bills do not require insurers to adopt recommendations against preventative screenings
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