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Single Payer Advocates Rip Top Dems
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ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: During Wednesday's Democratic debate, MSNBC viewers in New Hampshire and the D.C. area will see three separate television ads criticizing Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., for not backing single-payer health insurance.
While the top three Democratic presidential candidates would expand public programs as a fallback option, they all build on the system of private health insurance.
The $20,000 ad buy, which will also run on the New England Cable Network, was purchased by the California Nurses Association and Physicians for a National Health Plan.
Those two groups are part of a coalition called Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Healthcare which is promoting H.R. 676, a bill by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., which would create a privately-provided, publicly funded single-payer health care system. This is not the first time that C.N.A. and P.N.H.P. have teamed up. The two groups aired ads in Iowa targeting Clinton, Obama, and Edwards during the week leading up to ABC News' Aug. 19 Democratic debate.
The only presidential candidate who backs single-payer health care is Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio.
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another day, another democrat wanting more/higher taxes.
in the words of Prez Ronald Reagan:"there they go again tax and spend"
Posted by: darknessesedge | Sep 28, 2007 5:59:06 PM
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