On the last day before people vote in the NY-26 special election, Republican Jane Corwin invited serial health care liar Betsy McCaughey to help out.
It was evidently another Corwin FAIL.
McCaughey, who has pipe dreams of challenging Senator Kirsten Gillibrand next year, appeared at a senior center in Amherst, and made this remarkably stupid statement about the Affordable Care Act:
It's robbing grandma to pay Medicaid beneficiaries and the result is going to be less care.
Details, below.
That McCaughey quote is the only one to make it into any local media so far, and it is ridiculous because a third or so of Medicaid money in NY is spent on grandmas, mostly, in nursing homes.
So, McCaughey is absurdly complaining about robbing grandma, somehow, to pay for grandma's Medicaid care.
McCaughey, like Corwin, supports ditching Medicare for an impoverishing voucher system, that will certainly result in less care for seniors.
The DCCC hit that note hard:
Jane Corwin (NY-26) was joined on the campaign trail today by former Lieutenant Governor Betsy McCaughey. As the Siena College poll released this weekend shows, NY-26 voters are rejecting Jane Corwin’s plan to end Medicare, and her latest move reconfirms her commitment to ending Medicare.
“Jane Corwin has chosen to campaign with Betsy McCaughey, who not only wholeheartedly supports the Republican plan to end Medicare, but actually thinks it’s a ‘shame’ that the plan doesn’t end Medicare immediately for current seniors,” said Josh Schwerin, Northeast Regional Press Secretary at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “Even as voters are rejecting her positions, Jane Corwin is doubling down on her support for the radical Republican plan to end Medicare while protecting taxpayer subsidies for Big Oil.
Corwin was also joined by Jim Martin of the 60 Plus Association, a group well known for their vocal support of privatizing Medicare and Social Security.
The reason this is a FAIL for Corwin is that it re-emphasizes Kathy Hochul's major campaign theme -- radical Republicans like Corwin and McCaughey want to kill Medicare, and if they get away with that, Social Security too.
Most NY-26 voters have made their mind up about the radical Republicans by now, and will vote for Hochul tomorrow.
But thanks for the reminder, Betsy.