2009-09-11 Right-Wing Health Care Group Misled Canadian Interviewees

• when: 2009/09/11 (2009/09/11)
• author: Zaid Jilani
• source: Think Progress
• topics: US/healthcare/reform/2009/disinfo Canada/healthcare disinformation right wing video Conservatives for Patients Rights Rick Scott
• URL: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/11/canadian-cpr-far/
• title: Right-Wing Health Care Group Misled Canadian Interviewees Who Appeared In Anti-Reform Ads
• summary: «CPR, an anti-health care reform group led by the disgraced former CEO of Columbia/HCA Healthcare Rick Scott, [ran] a commercial attacking the Canadian health care system. ... CTV British Columbia is reporting that CPR misled several of the interviewees who appeared in their ads.»

Excerpt

Earlier this year, Conservatives for Patients Rights (CPR), an anti-health care reform group led by the disgraced former CEO of Columbia/HCA Healthcare Rick Scott, began running a commercial attacking the Canadian health care system. The TV ad runs through "tragic stories" of Canadian citizens who it portrays as being against government-run health plans such as Canada's Medicare system.

Now, CTV British Columbia is reporting that CPR misled several of the interviewees who appeared in their ads. One of them, Charlie Wadge, feels that the ad unfairly portrayed Canada's system as "barbaric":