April 29, 2008
SEIU Slams McCain's Health Care Plan In OH/DC Ad
In a new ad called "Feeling The Pain," the SEIU slams John McCain for opposing measures that would mitigate rising health care costs.
"Like President Bush, John McCain won't stop rising health care costs," a narrator says. The ad notes McCain's opposition to allowing seniors to buy prescriptions through Medicare and mentions his support for Bush's decision not to renew the children's health insurance program known as SCHIP.
The Republican National Committee, meanwhile, criticized Barack Obama for not denouncing the SEIU spot. “Barack Obama’s wishy-washy position on special interests is the sort of ‘old politics’ voters are sick of," said party spokesman Alex Conant. "What happened to the candidate who used to denounce these sorts of independent political attacks?”
McCain is in Florida today talking about his health care policy. Meanwhile, SEIU, as On Call readers know, has 1.9 million members and is the largest health care union.
Posted at 10:15 AM
Comments
Great ad, and completely representative of Sen. McCain senatorial record and his support of many fo the health care policiies of this administration as well as those of Reagan, Bush I and Clinton.
It is time for a shift in the way we cover Americans in terms of health care policy. We spend billions on defense and relatively little (even though we pay more than any other country) in terms of health care. What does this make us look like to the outside world and those of introspective enough to ask questions of American policy, you ask? Well it makes us look lie people who care about killing people and being very effective at battle while not caring as much about the health of those soldiers returning home or tha health of the families and communities who suppport their volunteer service!
joshquasimoto | 04.29.08 12:21 PM
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With all the dough this SIEU spends on political ads, if they gave that money back to their workers maybe they could afford gas. A great example why nobody wants to belong to a union anymore.
flyover | 04.29.08 10:48 PM
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Well there Flyover. If a rational healthcare package came in 2009, it would help union members quite a bit. Indeed, the amount they'd save on healthcare costs vs the present system would pay for lots of gas.
In addition, most of us are one disabling car accident away from losing everything we have, even if we have "good" healthcare coverage. Wouldn't it be nice if someone changed that too?
Sunlight | 05.02.08 01:23 PM
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