It's not just tea parties and town-hall rowdiness that conservatives are putting up against health care reform: DC-based economic conservative group The Club For Growth will spend $1.2 million on a TV ad campaign attacking "government run health care"
in a handful of targeted states this week, the group announced today.
See web-only content:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/08/-12-million-to-attack-government-run-health-care/22715/ Ads will air in Nevada, Colorado, Arkansas, and North Dakota,
targeting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), plus moderate
Democratic Sens. Michael Bennett (CO), Mark Udall (CO), Blanche Lincoln
(AR), Mark Pryor (AR), Byron Dorgan (ND), and Kent Conrad (ND) (who is
involved in Senate Finance Committee negotiations with Republicans and
who supports a co-op plan that wouldn't include public insurance, but
rather member-owned co-op insurance groups), as well as a handful of
representatives.
The Club's ad uses a popular theme among reform opponents--that the
government will inject itself into health care decisions at the end of
a person's life...that bureaucrats will, effectively, decide to kill
the terminally ill. It's a talking point Democrats have hit back at
furiously and derided as false.
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