Health Care For America Now gets to work
By Steve Benen Tuesday Jul 08, 2008 3:00pmThe Health Care For America Now initiative formally kicked off at the National Press Club today, and it sounds like a group with its eyes on the prize.
A consortium of progressive groups, think tanks, trade unions and activists are set to launch a $40 million health care campaign to prepare the ground for the next president to sign expanded care early in 2009.
The work of Health Care For America Now was first made public late last week. But the group, with Elizabeth Edwards as a figurehead, offered expanded insight into the details of its campaign during a meeting on Monday. In addition to spending $40 million — $1.5 million of which will be put behind an initial ad buy (national TV, print, and online) — the group will be sending organizers to 52 cities, blasting out emails to 5 million households, airing spots on MSNBC and CNN and submitting op-eds to major papers (officials hinted at the New York Times piece to come).
In addition, the campaign is going to take advantage of Moveon.org’s massive data files to reach out to like-minded supporters and officials promised to work in Democratic and Republican districts alike.
Here's the group's first ad:
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From their mouths to God's Ear!
Frist??
Sen. Kennedy just walked on the Senate floor to a standing ovation. Welcome back Ted.
I hate it when anyone uses the phrase "affordable health care". What does that mean? If your dirt poor you get health care but someone who works 40 hours a week and afford what? $500, $600, $1000 per month? They work 40 hours a week and are told "I know you think you should be able to buy a home, educate your children, take a vacation now and then, put a little away for a rainy day but the health care insurance companies want theirs now. As soon as the insurance companies are completely out of the picture then I will listen.
the public and some corporations say universal healthcare your time has come. the cost of healthcare increase at about 10% per year compare that to cost of living of living pay increases. open up the healthcare plan that congress has....increase the size of the paying pool to bring down cost. if you have health ins. you like keep it.
currently people that have health ins. are paying for people who don't and as hillary pointed out your essentially being taxed through higher premiums. some of this (not all of it) is a benefit to corporations who hire undocumented immigrants who use the healthcare system and can't pay. cheap labor hired by various industries don't offer healthcare benefits so workers flood the social human services of certain communities.
bankruptcies are at an all time high....big reason medical bills..if they want the challenge put hillary and elizabeth edwards in charge
Health Care for America - there is a good concept :)
BTW:
Jesse Jackson went on a tirade today and was caught on a live mic. Apparently putting down Obama and using racist words? Sounds crazy, but it's all over the net (though no tape of it yet).
Health care is the goal, not Insurance.
And if you have been following WaPo's obscurantism about McCain flip-flops, replies from WaPo up now at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com
RayC @ 4:
Not sure, I've never paid a thing, I give some of my earnings to take care of my country and it takes care of me in return.
Jerry @ 8:
What a novel idea... maybe we should try this in the US!
Jerry @ 8:
If you're Canadian or European, kindly remember the US has 300 million, more than any European country, and a damned sight more than Canada. Universal Health Care is needed, but requires some...adjustments to compensate for the much larger population.
Why don't Americans deserve what the rest of the industrialized world already has?
Red @ 11:
Greed and short sightedness mainly, not caring or taking responsibility for a country and being too polarised against each other and miss informed about a great many things.
Rasputin @ 9:
Because the US is run for profit, not for the people.
General_Rennenkampf @ 10:
And the US is considered more of a nation/continent opposed to just one country as is Europe as a whole which has 731 million so that argument doesn't fly, also there are lots more countries that have a health service that isn't run for profit at the expense of the people, way more than just Canada and Europe. Best ask Miss Teen South Carolina for some maps I suppose.
Though I completely support national, universal health care available to all, this ad was pretty insipid.
This is a much more serious subject than a 'magic 8-ball' conveys. Pretty silly, really.
Wonder what Obama thinks of this? No comment yet? I see his "partner," Elizabeth Edwards, is the figurehead for this but has not responded to his probably sudden statement that he would be partnering with her....does this let him/us know that she will not be his shill for his nonuniversal health insurance progam?
I think Jackson said Obama was talking down to blacks with his Father's Day speech, which a number of people thought was the case, I know a black Air America radio host here in Columbus was quite upset with that speech.
I think Jackson also said something that implied Obama has let his "power" be diminished.....
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