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Tag Archives: health insurance
Future Fund’s Faulty Fusillade
The American Future Fund, a conservative advocacy group, is launching an offensive on multiple fronts against the proposed health care bill. Its television ad mixes bits of recycled images and false claims with new falsehoods, while its print ad sticks closer to the facts but begs some context. Video Attacks …
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Tagged american future fund, health care, health insurance, heath care reform, newspaper ad, television ad
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All Those in Favor…
Keeping up with ads about the pending health care overhaul legislation, pro and con, is like trying to fill one’s glass from the proverbial fire hose. Today, we bring you three ads from groups that are urging passage of the bill, each of which needs a little context or correction. …
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Tagged Americans for Stable Quality Care, Americans United for Change, health care, Health Care for America Now, health care reform, health insurance, jobs
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Rove Vs. Brokaw, and Other Sunday Squabbles
Republican strategist Karl Rove and NBC’s "Meet the Press" guest host Tom Brokaw got into a tussle on that program Sunday over whether the Bush administration had planned to use oil money to partly fund the Iraq war. Rove also overstated opposition to Democratic health care legislation. We’ll start with …
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Tagged David Axelrod, health care, health care reform, health insurance, Iraq war, John Boehner, Karl Rove, lindsey graham, Tom Brokaw
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Ad Serves Up a Dose of Exaggeration
The Washington Post reported on March 9 that Employers for a Healthy Economy, a coalition of business groups that includes the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, plans to spend up to $10 million running an ad about the effects of health care legislation on the …
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Tagged chamber of commerce, economy, employers for a healthy economy, health care, health insurance, jobs
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More Pre-Summit Hype
A group partly supported by the Service Employees International Union is out with an ad that criticizes insurance companies and asks: "If health reform fails THEN what?" The Foundation for Patients’ Rights TV spot highlights the well-publicized rate-hike (as high as 39 percent) that had been planned by California’s Anthem …
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Tagged health care, Health Care for America Now, health insurance, SEIU
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