'We were duped': Two British women tricked into becoming stars of campaign to sabotage health reform

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'We were duped': Two British women tricked into becoming stars of campaign to sabotage Obama's healthcare reforms
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 1:56 AM on 15th August 2009

Two British women have claimed they were duped into becoming the stars of a campaign to sabotage Barack Obama's healthcare reforms.

Furious Kate Spall and Katie Brickell claim that their views on the NHS have been misrepresented by a free market campaign group opposed to Mr Obama's reforms in a bid to discredit the UK system.

Their anger came amid a growing backlash in the UK over the portrayal of the NHS by conservatives in America, with David Cameron and Gordon and Sarah Brown joining an online campaign to defend the British system from attack.

As part of an increasingly bitter debate over the merits of healthcare reform, the campaign group Conservatives for Patients' Rights (CPR) aired a series of commercials featuring interviews with patients in both the UK and Canada.
In the advert focusing on the NHS, it was claimed that people were left on lengthy waiting lists and denied life-saving treatments.

But two of those featured in the campaign have since claimed their words were twisted by the CPR.

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