New Obama ad focuses on healthcare

This is music to my ears, eyes, whatever.  The campaign is hitting hard on healthcare.  Watch and enjoy:

And just to run through the associated facts again:

The Obama-Biden Plan (Highlights):

• -34 million more people insured.
• -All children insured.
• -Small businesses receive a Small Business Tax Credit for healthcare.
• -Serious investment in Health Information Technology.
• -Allows the Federal Government to negotiate drug prices.
• -Requires investigation into disparities in care.

• -Predicted to kick 5,000,000 off of the roles of the insured.
• -Predicted to force 20,000,000 out of their employer health plans, many of whom would be forced into inferior, nongroup plans.
• -Will put a time-bomb health tax on middle class families that increases over time - an average of $1,100 in extra taxes by 2013 for a family making $60,000/year.  And in some states that's much higher.
• -Has no plan to finance this - except more tax cuts.
• -Has no plan to insure children - after all, he did oppose funding for SCHIP, the children's health initiative.
• -Has no plan to address disparities in care across gender, economic and racial lines.

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