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Tag Archives: Health Care for America Now
More Health Care Ads?
So now that President Obama is set to sign this health care bill into law, you won’t have to hear all kinds of claims about it, right? Well, not so fast. The end of the health care ad wars isn’t here yet. Liberals are getting in the first shots — …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged AFSCME, Americans United for Change, health care, Health Care for America Now, health insurance
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All Those in Favor…
Keeping up with ads about the pending health care overhaul legislation, pro and con, is like trying to fill one’s glass from the proverbial fire hose. Today, we bring you three ads from groups that are urging passage of the bill, each of which needs a little context or correction. …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Americans for Stable Quality Care, Americans United for Change, health care, Health Care for America Now, health care reform, health insurance, jobs
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More Pre-Summit Hype
A group partly supported by the Service Employees International Union is out with an ad that criticizes insurance companies and asks: "If health reform fails THEN what?" The Foundation for Patients’ Rights TV spot highlights the well-publicized rate-hike (as high as 39 percent) that had been planned by California’s Anthem …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged health care, Health Care for America Now, health insurance, SEIU
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Health Care and the Economy
Would the House-passed health care bill make a tough economy worse and wipe out more jobs, as claimed in a TV ad from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce? Or would it help small business and encourage economic growth, as claimed in an ad sponsored by a big labor union …
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Posted in Articles
Tagged chamber of commerce, economy, health care, Health Care for America Now, health insurance, jobs
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Cadillac Plans and the Middle Class
The liberal group Health Care for America Now is airing an ad that argues against a tax on high-cost employer-provided health care plans, a revenue-raising aspect of the Senate Finance Committee bill. "Some senators say they want to tax so-called ‘Cadillac’ health care plans, but those proposals will also tax …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Health Care for America Now, health insurance, taxes
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TGIF
President Obama’s unexpected Nobel Peace Prize may end up being the story of the week, but it was the third-party groups that occupied most of our attention here at FactCheck.org. Once again, health care dominated the discussion, though we also saw some new ads on taxes and on climate change. …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Americans for Prosperity, cap-and-trade, health care, Health Care for America Now, health insurance, medicare, special election
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Targeting Ensign
We’re not ones to doubt that money can influence politics. But uncovering a paying-for-favors scandal takes more than a mere list of campaign contributions and a few committee votes. That tactic, however, is being used – again – in the health care debate, this time in an ad from the liberal …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged campaign contributions, health care, Health Care for America Now, health insurance, John Ensign
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62%: Conventional Wisdom or “Dubious Research”?
The liberal group Health Care for America Now has come out with another ad attacking the health insurance industry. The ad is running as part of a million dollar ad buy, according to the group. It repeats a claim that is being made repeatedly as the debate over overhauling the …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Health Care for America Now, health insurance, statistics, TV ad
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Denial of Claims
Insurance companies aren’t very popular these days, and it’s certainly not too difficult to dig up a horror story or two of how a patient’s medical claim was denied unfairly. But do companies really "deny payment for 1 out of every 5 treatments doctors prescribe," as a new ad says? …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged health care, Health Care for America Now, health insurance
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Recycled Health Care Ad
A coalition of liberal and union groups called Health Care for America Now has announced the release of two television ads and several print ads thanking Democratic senators and members of Congress for supporting President Obama’s health care plan. The two television ads laud Sens. Harry Reid of Nevada and …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Chris Dodd, Harry Reid, health care, Health Care for America Now
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