Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Betsy McCaughey (/məˈkɔɪ/; born Elizabeth Helen Peterken, October 20, 1948), formerly known as Betsy McCaughey Ross, was the 72nd Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1995 to 1998, during the first term of Governor George Pataki. She unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for Governor after Pataki dropped her from his 1998 ticket, and ended up on the ballot under the Liberal party line.A historian by training, with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, McCaughey has, over the years, provided industry-friendly media commentary on U.S. public policy affecting healthcare-related issues. Her 1993 attack on the Clinton healthcare plan was likely a major factor in the initially-popular bill's defeat in Congress; also, it brought her to the attention of Republican Pataki, who chose her as his Lieutenant Governor nominee/running mate. In 2009, her criticisms of the Affordable Care Act -- then a bill being debated in the 111th Congress -- in TV and radio interviews, inspired the controversial slogans (popularized through repeated mentions by Sarah Palin) "death panel", and, "pulling the plug on Grandma" (both assertions that the Act would somehow allow [nonexistent] government healthcare administrators to make life-and-death decisions about seriously ill citizen-patients, as private-sector HMOs and insurers have, in reality). Widespread dissemination of McCaughey's impassioned rhetoric (from herself and others) was instrumental in creating a climate of pervasive, negative public opinion toward the Affordable Care Act -- strong enough to delay and nearly defeat its congressional passage, and overshadow the Act in its early years of implementation.She has been a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute and Hudson Institute think tanks, and has written numerous articles and op-eds. She was a member of the boards of directors of Genta (a medical supplies corporation that focuses on products for cancer treatment from 2001 to 2007, and, Cantel Medical Corporation (medical equipment maker/marketer) -— until she resigned in August 2009 to avoid the appearance of conflict-of-interest, given her public advocacy against the Affordable Care Act legislation.. }
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- Betsy_McCaughey abstract "Betsy McCaughey (/məˈkɔɪ/; born Elizabeth Helen Peterken, October 20, 1948), formerly known as Betsy McCaughey Ross, was the 72nd Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1995 to 1998, during the first term of Governor George Pataki. She unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for Governor after Pataki dropped her from his 1998 ticket, and ended up on the ballot under the Liberal party line.A historian by training, with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, McCaughey has, over the years, provided industry-friendly media commentary on U.S. public policy affecting healthcare-related issues. Her 1993 attack on the Clinton healthcare plan was likely a major factor in the initially-popular bill's defeat in Congress; also, it brought her to the attention of Republican Pataki, who chose her as his Lieutenant Governor nominee/running mate. In 2009, her criticisms of the Affordable Care Act -- then a bill being debated in the 111th Congress -- in TV and radio interviews, inspired the controversial slogans (popularized through repeated mentions by Sarah Palin) "death panel", and, "pulling the plug on Grandma" (both assertions that the Act would somehow allow [nonexistent] government healthcare administrators to make life-and-death decisions about seriously ill citizen-patients, as private-sector HMOs and insurers have, in reality). Widespread dissemination of McCaughey's impassioned rhetoric (from herself and others) was instrumental in creating a climate of pervasive, negative public opinion toward the Affordable Care Act -- strong enough to delay and nearly defeat its congressional passage, and overshadow the Act in its early years of implementation.She has been a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute and Hudson Institute think tanks, and has written numerous articles and op-eds. She was a member of the boards of directors of Genta (a medical supplies corporation that focuses on products for cancer treatment from 2001 to 2007, and, Cantel Medical Corporation (medical equipment maker/marketer) -— until she resigned in August 2009 to avoid the appearance of conflict-of-interest, given her public advocacy against the Affordable Care Act legislation.".