Patients United Now Runs Nationwide Ad Calling Health Reform Proposals Deadly, Comparing Them To Canadian Single Payer System

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If you haven’t seen this ad already, you probably will soon.

Patients United Now is an offshoot of the well-funded conservative group Americans for Prosperity. The ad’s been around since Patients United was created on May 27, but it hasn’t gone national until today as the health care debate on Capitol Hill hits a fever pitch.

The ad, which previously ran in eight states, will be on the air for the next week.

As you can see it suggests that Congress wants to impose a Canadian style health care system on the United States. And though the Canadian health care system outperforms the American system on many levels, they also have a single payer system, and the reform bills making their way through Congress are not single payer proposals.

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