We were duped, say two British women used in US health campaign [View All]

[Merryweather]

Source: Times of London

Two British women who have become the unwitting stars of a campaign to derail Barack Obama’s healthcare reforms yesterday said that their views on the NHS had been misrepresented.

Katie Brickell and Kate Spall said that they strongly supported state-funded healthcare, but their descriptions of poor treatment at the hands of the NHS form the centrepiece of an advertising campaign against the proposed reforms in America.

Both appear in adverts for Conservatives for Patients’ Rights (CPR), a lobby group that opposes Mr Obama’s plans for universal medical insurance, which have caused a transatlantic rift over the merits of the NHS.


Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6795466.ece

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I'm proud of my fellow Brits - they recognised they were being used and deliberately taken out of context and refused to let the wingnuts get away with it. :patriot: (visualise a British flag there)

Right wingers in the US are like abusive spouses to the UK - they were patronisingly appreciative of us at best ("There's a good dog.") while Bliar was Bush's willing slave. Now times have changed they attack us and try to manipulate us in an attempt to boost their pathetic 'case' against Obama's healthcare reform drive, like a wife beater hits his wife just to boost his tiny ego.