OUT OF CONTROL: Health Insurance Rates Up 39, 60, Even 70%

[Omaha Steve]

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http://www.afscme.org/press/27881.cfm

For IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, March 16, 2010
As Congress Faces Historic Vote on Health Insurance Reform This Week, New TV Ad Hammers the Insurance Industry and Their Premiums Run Amok

Joint Effort from AFSCME and Americans United for Change Part of Major $11 Million Final Push from Pro-Reform Coalition, Sending Message to Congress: “Stand With Your Constituents, Not Big Insurance – and We’ll Have Your Back”
*** Watch “Accountable” here ***

Washington, DC — With a critical vote expected this week in the U.S. House on historic health insurance reform legislation, AFSCME and Americans United for Change announced a new television ad spotlighting sickening premium hikes on individuals and small businesses as high as 75 percent as a closing argument for why Congress should stand with their constituents and not the greedy insurance companies making record profits. See script below for “Accountable” which will air Wednesday through Friday on CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, as well as Thursday and Friday on CBS during the NCAA tournament in the Washington DC area – aimed squarely at lawmakers. The $200,000 effort is a part of a major $11 million final push from a coalition of pro-reform groups, beating back the smears and misinformation from the insurance industry and sending a clear message to Members of Congress: “If you stand up for your constituents, not big insurance, we’ll have your backs.”

AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee: “Don’t be fooled by the insurance companies, the Chamber of Commerce and the GOP operatives. If we fail to defeat the insurance companies, Americans will look back at this week as the one when we lost the best chance in generations to pass a bill to help working families deal with health care. Congress owes us all an up or down vote. It’s time to rein in the abuses. It’s time to control skyrocketing costs. It’s time to tell the insurance companies: Your time is up.”

Tom McMahon, Acting Executive Director, Americans United for Change: “After more than a year of debate on health care reform, Members of Congress face a very simple choice this week: either stand with the big insurance companies that don’t see anything wrong with raising premiums by up to 75 percent, or stand with the families they represent that can’t afford them. Either stand with the big insurance companies or your constituents that went bankrupt after they got sick and soon after saw their coverage dropped. Either stand with your constituents, or the big insurance companies that consider domestic violence or having had a C-section to be “pre-existing conditions.” What’s it going to be?”

Americans United for Change is also currently on the air with nearly half a million dollars in TV and radio ads encouraging African-American voters to tell their U.S. Representative, “Stand with us, not big insurance.”

AFSCME’s 1.6 million members provide the vital services that make America happen. With members in hundreds of different occupations – from nurses to corrections officers, child care providers to sanitation workers – AFSCME advocates for fairness in the workplace, excellence in public services and prosperity and opportunity for all working families.

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1625 L Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036-5687
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[mwrguy]

1. Don't worry

They'll go down by up to 3000% when the senate bill kicks in.

[bullimiami]

2. its the best lots and lots and lots of money can buy.