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New Health Care Ad: Every American Deserves CheneyCare

Posted by Matt Corley, Think Progress at 4:39 PM on January 7, 2008.


The California Nurses Association and the National Nurses Organizing Committee launch a new ad campaign in eight New Hampshire papers.
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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 Vice President Dick Cheney has benefited from his government-provided coverage. "If he were anyone else, he'd probably be dead by now" due to his long history of health problems, claimed the ad.

In the group's newest round of ads, which ran "in eight New Hampshire papers" on Friday and will go "national" today, they dub a new name for "guaranteed, publicly-funded health care for all Americans": CheneyCare.

The ad "asks readers to go to CheneyCare.org and sign a petition in support of CheneyCare for all Americans":

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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 ThinkProgress 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, but President Bush twice vetoed legislation that would have expanded coverage to 4 million more children.

While it is certainly good that Vice President Cheney was able get the medical attention he needed, the groups' ad is right. Americans do deserve "CheneyCare for all."

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Matt Corley is a Research Associate for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.


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Should Be.....
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Posted by: cherrielane on Jan 7, 2008 5:00 PM   
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I disagree, it should read: "Even Cheney Deserves OUR Healthcare"! Just imagine if all our public servants had our health care AND retirement/social security. Instead they receive the best health care and a lucrative retirement program (avg. 250,000 per year for themselves and god forbid their widows) on our tax dollars. Since when did they become "Royalty"? Change it.

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» RE: Should Be..... Posted by: Doubtom
VOTE KUCINICH...
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Posted by: undrgrndgirl on Jan 7, 2008 8:15 PM   
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for single payer health care for all!

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» Curious... Posted by: ABetterFuture
» RE: Curious... Posted by: hagwind
» Oh heavens... Posted by: ABetterFuture
» RE: Curious... Posted by: surfreality
» RE: Curious... Posted by: Happysocialist
» RE: Curious... Posted by: CarolL
» Absolutely! Posted by: ABetterFuture
Personal Responsibility
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Posted by: AlexLawyer on Jan 7, 2008 10:51 PM   
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It's interesting that the Republicans, who make so much of personal responsibility, are silent about Cheney's continued heavy smoking and drinking despite multiple heart attacks, bypass surgery, angioplasty, a pacemaker and implanted defibrillator. I'm not one for blaming people for their illnesses, but those who usually do so give Cheney a free pass. In any case, it's clear that he's a slow learner.

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» RE: Personal Responsibility Posted by: january37
» RE: Personal Responsibility Posted by: carcinoid112
Personal Responsibility
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Posted by: AlexLawyer on Jan 7, 2008 10:52 PM   
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It's interesting that the Republicans, who make so much of personal responsibility, are silent about Cheney's continued heavy smoking and drinking despite multiple heart attacks, bypass surgery, angioplasty, a pacemaker and implanted defibrillator. I'm not one for blaming people for their illnesses, but those who usually do so give Cheney a free pass. In any case, it's clear that he's a slow learner.

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Edwards has already proposed this plan
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Posted by: barry1of4 on Jan 8, 2008 7:16 AM   
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Isn't it true that John Edwards has already proposed this kind of plan and publicly put Congress on notice that in an Edwards Presidency Congress has six months to provide the same health coverage they have to the American people or Edwards will take their health coverage away?
Why doesn't the media, even on the left, cover Edwards and his candidacy to anywhere near the same level as Obama or Clinton? He is arguably at least as electable as they. I would think that electing a President that fights for the Middle Class after the last 7 years would be just as historic as a female or African-American President. And there is the Vice Presidency ...

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Outrageous
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Posted by: QQOblivion on Jan 8, 2008 7:52 AM   
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That's right. According to the Repugs, providing adequate healthcare (which is a human RIGHT) to all Americans is (as they say) "outrageous" in their opinion.

But I guess it isn't outrageous to provide a paramedic crew to shadow Cheney all the time in case his pure evil eviscerates what is left of his heart.

Nobody said there was justice in the world, especially when it comes to who has and who does not have health care. It is time for that to change.

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Poor Old Cheney?
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Posted by: SackofWoe0 on Jan 8, 2008 7:58 AM   
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We pay for his care and all the members of congress, give us the same and show us, the American people, who pay your salaries too, the same respect and the courage to go up against the medical establishment and the insurance companies and the pharmacuetical companies, lets put this to rest once and for all, a single payer system is the only way to go. AND YES THE MONEY IS ALL READY THERE, don't any of you ever look at the Budget??????

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I am sick...
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Posted by: JoshuaLudd on Jan 8, 2008 8:35 AM   
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I am sick of seeing my grandparents who both worked hard until their early 60s when they were both disabled having to get samples of their medications from their doctors and from other family members because their insurance leaves them hanging for $1000 after they reach a certain amount for the year on meds, and only picks up again once they have paid that thousand.

They worked their entire lives. Its sickening.

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» me too...so i'm voting KUCINICH Posted by: undrgrndgirl
Between 9-10 million children estimated uinsured here
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Posted by: bthespoon on Jan 8, 2008 1:59 PM   
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Not 3.2. How could they add 4 million more uninsured children to the covered list if there are only 3.2 million to begin with? Sorry to be nit-picky, but a million here, a million there, pretty soon you're talking about real children.

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all in the family
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Posted by: Forrest on Jan 9, 2008 8:30 AM   
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My father lived to see 80 years because he had access to government health care (military veteran). His son, my brother, died last year at the age of 49 years because he didn't have health care.

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Well then, it comes down to this:...
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Posted by: ABetterFuture on Jan 10, 2008 1:16 AM   
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...people want free things, as long as they don't have to think about it, or believe they are paying for it.

Business as usual for duh 'mercan publik.

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THE BIG INSURANCE COMPANIES RUN THE
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Posted by: Raymond Emerson on Jan 12, 2008 9:48 PM   
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United States. Single payer health care is a pipe dream. The rich get health care. The poor get poor care.

My first wife would have had another year of useful life, if she had had cash instead of Blue Cross. There are private hospitals in the United States that do not take any form of insurance. Some these hospitals have whole departments that don't exist in public hospitals. They do treatments that are only available for cash.

She told me that I got her a year that she wouldn't have had. I think European health care would have gotten her another year.

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