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Health care debate to flood airwaves
The Washington Times ^ | March 8, 2009 | Sean Lengell

Posted on 03/08/2009 3:29:44 AM PDT by Scanian

Who can be against affordable, quality health care? Want easy access to the doctor of your choice? Who doesn't? And who can say no to better innovations in medicine and medical devices?

Get used to these rhetorical queries. As the health care reform debate cranks up in the coming months, advocacy groups will spend millions of advertising dollars waging a public relations war of words to try to sway the American public - as well as Capitol Hill and the White House.

At stake is a multibillion-dollar industry poised for an unprecedented overhaul at the hands of President Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.

"Clearly, any change in health care policy will impact each of us ... so our plan is to make sure the American public knows what's going on," said Richard L. Scott, chairman of Conservatives for Patients' Rights, which on Tuesday launched its first multimedia ad buy in a yearlong campaign he said may cost him $20 million.

Mr. Scott, who made a fortune running the Columbia Hospital Corp. and who supports free-market principles in health care, said ad campaigns such as his play a pivotal role in helping influence the voting public.

"While Congress will be voting on this, and the president will sign a bill, I believe it's the American public that will decide what the bill is going to have in it," Mr. Scott said.

Democratic leaders in both houses of Congress have

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KEYWORDS: bho44; bhohealthcare; democrats; govhealthcare; healthcare; impeachobama; media; obama; socialism; socializedmedicine; wreckinghealthcare
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To: socialismisinsidious

Listen to the socialistimulus discussion in my last night’s endeavor with Dr. Betsy McCaughey on this very subject:

She saved us before and is working to do it again.....

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/freedom

(shameless plug alert)


21 posted on 03/09/2009 6:00:07 AM PDT by HonestConservative (http://www.operationvalentine.blogspot.com/)
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To: Scanian
We need to focus more on the promise Obama made before his election:

"Now is the time to finally keep the promise of affordable, accessible health care for every single American. If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves."

22 posted on 03/09/2009 6:56:50 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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