Nurses Launch Major Ohio Radio Ad Campaign Telling Candidates: Stop Selling Insurance and Back R...(all single payer plan that will guarante...),Health

"We hope to remind Ohio voters of the suffering that nurses witness. We see patients who have been abandoned or abused by the very insurance companies that some think are the solution to our national healthcare crisis. And we hope that voters will ask the candidates of both parties, why are you proposing more insurance, rather than more care?" said Deborah Burger, RN, member of the NNOC/CNA Council of Presidents.

NNOC/CNA has been in the forefront of the campaign to transform the nation's broken healthcare system to a guaranteed healthcare program as exists in other industrialized nations and could be achieved in the U.S. through an expanded and improved Medicare for all. In the past year, CNA has also run TV and print ads in Iowa prior to its caucuses, in New Hampshire prior to its primary, and in national publications.

Several of the ads featured the headlines about the health problems of Vice President Dick Cheney with the headline "If he were anyone else, he'd probably be dead by now," with a call that all Americans should receive the same level and standard of care available to Cheney and members of Congress. In response to that ad, tens of thousands have signed an online petition, and more than 800 people have sent in horror stories of their own experiences with insurance companies.

Additionally, NNOC/CNA led opposition to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's individual-mandate proposal in California which was subsequently rejected by the California Senate, despite a major campaign for it by a number of politicians, policy wonks, and most of the state's major insurance companies.

Last year, NNOC/CNA also sponsored events outside hundreds of theaters across the U.S. when Michael Moore's SiCKO, an indictment of the healthcare industry, opened. Subsequently, NNOC/CNA members hosted hundreds of local showings of the film and other events to promote guarante
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