Obama Allies Launch TV Ad Supporting His Health Care Plan
Email ABC News' David Chalian Reports:
Timed to coincide with the president's speech before the American Medical Association today and the legislative work upcoming in Congress this week, the left-leaning coalition of interest groups (largely underwritten by Labor and other liberal interest groups) known as "Americans United for Change" is launching a TV ad today in support of President Obama's "plan to reform health care."The ad is a relatively small buy on DC cable aimed at getting news media attention and influencing the policy makers in Washington.The ad relies on one finding from a recent Hotline/Diageo poll which showed 62% of Americans support "Congress and the President enacting a major overhaul of the U.S. health care system."Of course, the desire to reform the health care system is not where the political debate lives. It is all about those devilish details which will shape what that reform looks like and how it gets paid for in the end.(Perhaps it is not surprising that Americans United chose not to focus on another finding in the poll that shows 35% of Americans believe expanding coverage to the uninsured should be the bigger focus of reform efforts compared to the 49% who said controlling health care costs should be the bigger focus.) In the ad, the group continues to push for the option to enroll in a public health insurance plan as part of the reform package.President Obama and his team have expressed support for a public plan, but have thus far refused to rule out signing a bill that does not include a public option. You can watch the ad HERE.And here is the script: SCRIPT: 62%In the Senate, they call sixty percent support a "super" majority.A new poll shows sixty-two percent of Americans support the President's plan to reform health care.That means lowering costs, so everyone has access to quality, affordable care. Protecting your choice of doctor. Letting you choose between keeping the private insurance you have, and a public health insurance plan.So if the Republicans in Congress ignore what sixty-two percent of support, you gotta wonder: Who are they listening to?Paid for by Americans United for Change.
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Who is the GOP listening to? Who the heck knows. It’s always less government. That is their undying mantra and their excuse to try and block anything to help the American people. They are breaking down the 47 millions Americans into young and healthy men and women who don’t want insurance and the illegals. Confuse and obfuscate – this is what the GOP is all about. How many more decades will it take for Americans to realize that it is the GOP who has been kicking this problem down the road?
Posted by: Bob | June 15, 2009, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm
David Chalian says: “(Perhaps it is not surprising that Americans United chose not to focus on another finding in the poll that shows 35% of Americans believe expanding coverage to the uninsured should be the bigger focus of reform efforts compared to the 49% who said controlling health care costs should be the bigger focus.)”
Why should they focus on that, David Chalian? The poll shows that they both are important to the American public. The fact that YOU are attempting to make a big distinction between the two only reveals your own right-wing bias.
Quit carrying water for the insurance industry, Chalian, and start doing your job as an unbiased journalist!
Posted by: Glenn | June 15, 2009, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
Who pays for this media blitz?
Taxpayers???
Posted by: Trajan | June 15, 2009, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm
These aren’t Obama allies – they are the remnants of his campaign organization. He brought them out of mothballs to make change happen.
Stop the 24/7 campaigning. It make have gotten you elected (perhaps just this once), but we are getting sick of it all.
Posted by: Jon F | June 16, 2009, 6:13 am 6:13 am
The US government is broke,it cannot pay for what it already has on its books.Why spend more money that you don’t have?How about living within your means and try to fund what you have already promised to Social Security and Medicare.
Posted by: Johnny L | June 16, 2009, 9:58 am 9:58 am
Obama has dedicated billions to “bailout” the banksters at the behest of the financial elite. But when it comes to health care “reform” for the American people, his solution is to implement a Nazi-styled system that will do away with “useless eaters.”
ABC is a first tier asset of the CIA under Operation Mockingbird, so it makes sense they’ll push Obama’s eugenicist health care plan. The CIA is a creation of Frank Wisner and Wall Street, so it stands to reason the agency does the bidding of the international bankers.
Of course, this system no doubt tickles the global elite pink. After all, they are dedicated eugenicists determined to wipe out billions of people.
Later this month, ABC News and Charlie Gibson will help them sell you your own demise.
Posted by: Dante | June 16, 2009, 11:14 am 11:14 am
Mr. Chalian,
Thanks for such good reporting of the facts. I appreciate better understanding this situation. Interesting the way the numbers are being spun and by whom. Again thanks.
Posted by: Ordinary Sadie | June 16, 2009, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm