| By Dave Harding, ProgressOhio - Jan 8th, 2008 at 11:44 am EST |
| Also listed in: Ohio Bloggers |
Last month, the California Nurses Association and the National Nurses Organizing Committee ran ads in Iowa newspapers advocating for a single-payer health-care bill, highlighting the fact that Vice President Dick Cheney has benefited from his government-provided coverage. "If he were anyone else, he'd probably be dead by now," considering his long history of health problems, claimed the ad.
The group's newest round of ads, which ran "in eight New Hampshire papers" last Friday and went "national" yesterday, dubbed a new name for "guaranteed, publicly-funded health care for all Americans": CheneyCare.
They ask "readers to go to CheneyCare.org and sign a petition in support of CheneyCare for all Americans."
Cheney's office "did not respond to a request for comment" by the Washington Examiner, but in December, when the original ads ran, Cheney spokesperson Megan Mitchell said that "something this outrageous does not warrant a response."
As The Progress Report noted at the time, what is actually outrageous is the fact that there are roughly 47 million people in America without health insurance, including 3.2 million children. President Bush has twice vetoed legislation that would have expanded coverage to four million more children.
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