Sen. Ron Wyden’s office is sending out email touting this video, Senator Ron Wyden | Stand Tall for Health Care Reform.
They offer reviews such as “Ron Wyden Makes Health Care Reform Funny… [a] truly funny and risky political ad” and “The most entertaining political advertisement I’ve seen in a long time”.
So, judge for yourself.
I didn’t like it at all. But I do like the slogan: “Are you ready for universal health care that can never be taken away?”
I’m amazed at the way “government health care” is still a scare-term, when 90 million Americans already get insurance from Medicare, Medicaid, or other government programs including [federal employees] and the V.A. system — and most of them find their care just fine. Actually, government insurance is already bigger in dollar terms than private insurance (private spending is 55 percent of health spending, but a substantial fraction of that is out of pocket.) And somehow nobody notices.