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Health Care Reform Blockers Harry And Louise Return (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
In 1993, the Health Insurance Association of America aired an ad featuring Harry and Louise, a couple confused by Bill and Hillary Clinton's bureaucratic health care plan. The ad is credited with helping kill universal health care. Now the couple is back, but this time health care reform is their top priority:
Read more about the new Harry and Louise campaign here.
Harry And Louise Flip Flop On Health Care
Wonk Room —
Harry and Louise are back, but this time they’re saying that “the status quo is no longer an option.”
Sixteen years after falsely suggesting that President Clinton’s efforts to reform the health care system would undermine existing coverage and leave health care decisions in the hands of government bureaucrats, Harry and Louise — now “older and wiser” — are demanding that the next president “bring everyone to the table and make [health reform] happen.”
Watch both the 1993 and 2008 ads: ...
Harry and Louise Tip Their Hand: ‘Friend’ Would Not Get Coverage Under McCain’s Plan
Wonk Room —
Our guest blogger is Adam Jentleson, the Communications and Outreach Director for the Hyde Park Project at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
In their new ad, Harry and Louise – older and more mature than they were in 1993 – seem to go to great pains to stay neutral and avoid favoring either candidate’s position on health care. But despite their efforts to stay neutral, their new ad reveals one of the glaring flaws in John McCain’s radical health care plan.
In the ad, Harry mentions a friend who was recently diagnosed with cancer, but doesn’t have insurance. Under McCain’s plan, this “friend” would ...
Harry and Louise Return
Crooks and Liars —
Back in 1993 when Bill and Hillary Clinton were trying to achieve real health care reform in this country, an industry-lobbyist group called the Health Insurance Association of America ran a highly successful ad called “Harry and Louise” which featured a white middle-class couple sitting at the kitchen table spewing Republican talking points and talking about the evils of universal health care. The ad was so successful that it’s widely considered to be the main reason President Clinton’s plan failed. ...
Harry and Louise are back!
BlueOregon —
Remember Harry and Louise? They were the characters in the infamous 1993 TV ad that helped derail health care reform for the past 15 years.
Now Harry and Louise are back — and they're singing a very different tune. Watch the new ad, and see what Harry and Louise are saying 15 years later:
Also view The Making of Harry and Louise Return.
They came back as part of Families USA's Stand Up for Health Care effort.
Discuss.
Early Word: Three Amigos
The Caucus —
Swine flu is at the top of the agenda as President Obama, Mexico’s Felipe Calderon, and Stephen Harper, Canada’s prime minister, head into the second and last day of the so called “Three Amigos” summit. The annual meeting, an outgrowth of the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement signed in 1994, is intended to put the three countries on the same page policy-wise, but the summit also highlights divisions between the close trading partners. As expected, immigration was a topic in meetings Sunday, but in the context of a little discussed battle brewing between Mexico and Canada. Canada is complaining that too many Mexicans are entering the country ...
