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Chris Good

Chris Good - Chris Good is a political reporter for ABC News. He was previously an associate editor at The Atlantic and a reporter for The Hill.

Anti-Reform Group Pumping Calls Into Nebraska

By Chris Good
Sep 1 2009, 9:50 AM ET Comment

Here come the robocalls.

In a clear sign that anti-reform forces are banking on "centrist" Dems to help block health care reform, the well funded group Americans for Prosperity is pumping starkly-worded calls into Nebraska urging Senator Ben Nelson to filibuster on health care in order to "kill" reform.

The calls inform recipients that reform would "put Washington in charge of all health care," a misleading reference to the possible inclusion of a public option, and would "cut Medicare by $500 billion," a claim that's also been widely denounced as misleading...

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