And those injured by guns and cars don't deserve health-care.

Unfair argument. If you remove *all* people in need of medical care, "those other countries" are just as good as the United States.

Don't forget that McCaughey's original hit piece on the Clinton health care reform plan in the 90's was funded by Big Tobacco, among others:

"What has not been reported until now is that McCaughey's writing was influenced by Philip Morris, the world's largest tobacco company, as part of a secret campaign to scuttle Clinton's health care reform. (The measure would have been funded by a huge increase in tobacco taxes.) In an internal company memo from March 1994, the tobacco giant detailed its strategy to derail Hillarycare through an alliance with conservative think tanks, front groups and media outlets. Integral to the company's strategy, the memo observed, was an effort to "work on the development of favorable pieces" with "friendly contacts in the media." The memo, prepared by a Philip Morris executive, mentions only one author by name:

' "Worked off-the-record with Manhattan and writer Betsy McCaughey as part of the input to the three-part exposé in The New Republic on what the Clinton plan means to you. The first part detailed specifics of the plan." '
http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/09/ok_info_about_b_mccaughey_that.php