The campaign of Gov. Jon Corzine (D-NJ) has a new ad against Republican former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie, in their continuing battle over insurance company coverage of mammograms.
Christie has advocated the legalization of mandate-free insurance policies, in order to lower costs. The Corzine camp went on the attack, saying that this would mean the elimination of New Jersey’s state mandate of mammogram coverage. Christie has called that attack “deceitful” and “awful,” citing his own mother’s fight against breast cancer.
But the Corzine ad is sticking with the attack, and calling Christie “deceitful,” and pointing to what mandate-free policies would mean. “Christie’s own website shows he’d let insurance companies end mammogram coverage,” the announcer says. “Cut short 48 hour maternity stays. No wonder the insurance industry backs Christie’s plan.”
