GOP Health Care Negotiators Targeted In New Ad
EmailABC News' Teddy Davis reports:
Even as Republicans appear increasingly unlikely to compromise with Democrats on health-care reform, the conservative Club for Growth is stepping up pressure on potential dealmakers.The conservative Club for Growth has just announced that it is launching a new television ad targeting the three Republican senators — Iowa's Chuck Grassley, Maine's Olympia Snowe, and Wyoming's Mike Enzi — who sit on the Senate Finance Committee and who are working with three Democratic counterparts to negotiate a bipartisan health-care deal behind closed doors."There is no harm in talking — but what are the Democrats talking about?" asks the ad's narrator. "Government-run insurance that pushes you out of your current plan. Politicians and bureaucrats making health care decisions. Job-killing regulations on small businesses. And massive tax hikes to pay for it all. Tell Sen. Grassley not to cave into the liberals."On the fact-check front, the most glaring distortion in the ad is the first claim: The Democratic proposals would not push you out of your current plan and into government insurance. Americans who lose their employer-based insurance because their employer decides to drop existing coverage would have the option of choosing either the public plan or subsidized private insurance. This will be the third ad in the Club's $1.2 million health-care campaign.Watch the three ads, which are tailored to each of the three senators, by clicking HERE:
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Something to keep in mind – those that who are so bent on destroying the health care plan are from the smallest of states – Montana, North Dakota , Iowa – well there is no excuse for Grassley except that he owned by the insurance companies. Bet all of these guys are lined up with their hands out at the various insurance companies. they are only interested in their personal finances and really don’t care about the health of the nation.
Posted by: cjr | August 19, 2009, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm
yeah right cjr…a majority of AMERICANs dont want government health care. that means blues and reds. that means the bi partisian public says no.
Posted by: catman | August 19, 2009, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm
More fear tactics from Republicans. You’d think people would be immune to the distortions and outright lies they use to terrify their weak-minded constituency, but I guess that is asking too much from those people. You’d also think that Republicans would care about what is good for the American people rather than their sponsors in the insurance industry, but, again, I guess that is asking too much from those people.
Posted by: DaveM | August 19, 2009, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm
Brother Grassley, this is who you’ve been keeping as friends. If you are but willing to support a public option, even a rather limited one, there will be room for you in the pews on our side.
Posted by: T | August 19, 2009, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm
@catman: Yeah, keep the gummint’s hands off my Medicare!
Posted by: T | August 19, 2009, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm
You don’t want Universal Healthcare but you want your Medicare and Medicaid?? It is all government? so what is the difference?
Posted by: insight | August 19, 2009, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm
When I saw the title of this article (GOP Health Care Negotiators Targeted in New Ad), I thought there would be a corresponding article about the piece written Politico’s Kenneth P. Vogel, “Axelrod Ties Targeted in Health Fight,” dated: August 19, 2009. Mr. Vogel’s article says: “Critics of President Obama’s health-care overhaul are zeroing in on his senior adviser David Axelrod, whose former partners at a Chicago-based firm are the beneficiaries of huge ad buys — now at $24 million and counting — by White House allies in the reform fight.
The unwelcome scrutiny, largely from Republicans, comes at an inopportune time as Obama seeks to shore up support for health care reform. It revolves around two separate $12 million ad campaigns advocating Obama’s health care plan that were produced and placed partly by AKPD Message and Media, a firm founded by Axelrod that employs his son and still owes Axelrod $2 million.” Please notice the statement; “The unwelcome scrutiny, largely from Republicans…” Meaning had not the Republicans brought this to our attention, we never would have known. Same with the issue surrounding Sarah Palin’s use of the phrase “Death Panels,” to describe end-of-life counseling and health-care-rationing, which were/are components of the health-care bill. Had she not used such language to describe some of the provisions in the Bill, we would not have known the philosophy of White House Adviser, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Though, Mrs Palin was criticized, by the mainstream media, for her phraseology, the Senate Finance Committee, nevertheless, hurriedly removed the end-of-life counseling from its version of the Bill. Had not the mainstream media (MSM) gone overboard to ridicule and embarrass Mrs. Palin, her comments probably would have been short lived.
Now, this article by Politico’s Kenneth P. Vogel. I looked to see if CNN, MSNBC or ABC was saying anything about this and did not find a single word. Something is wrong in a very, very, very large way when the MSM, those who should keep us informed – without taking sides – engage in the most consistent, horrendous and blatant biases and misinformation. The question is: Why? Lordy, Lordy, Lordy…what would it be like if we did not have other news sources and outlets?
Posted by: Percy | August 19, 2009, 4:31 pm 4:31 pm
Medicare reaps the benefits of the private system, it is essentially a payment system. Patients on Medicare can go to private doctors, private hospitals and obtain private supplemental health insurance. Medicare is intertwined with the private system so that is why it works. Medicare also reaps the benefits for private rsearch and development. A public system would be like Medicaid where access to private doctors would be through a health clinic and choice limited. This administration through decimation and vilification of the private sector will over time suck out any motivation for innovation and motivation and we will have a stagnant health care system. If we were to remove the mortality numbers from war and violence in American streets from current statistics, we would surpass any nation on earth as having the greatest health system in the world.
Posted by: Downwithsocialism | August 20, 2009, 9:13 am 9:13 am
David said:
“More fear tactics from Republicans. You’d think people would be immune to the distortions and outright lies they use to terrify their weak-minded constituency, ”
David: where were you when the Democrats were doing this on a much larger scale for the previous 8 years?
It is amazing how people on both sides of the political spectrum can scream at the other side when they are as guilty or more so of doing what they are crying about.
It also amazes me that we hear how the proposed healthcare is so good for us from people (including the President) who have yet to read the bill. I took the time to do so, it took a long time – several days do read it. What I read scares me!!
I think we need a Cash for Clunkers program for Politicians. If they don’t read the bills they vote for or against, they get removed from office.
Posted by: Ben There | August 20, 2009, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm