Clearly the term "universal" is being overused, misused, and misunderstood. The only truly universal coverage would a plan in which everyone was covered, without even signing up. If signup is required, it is not universal, because some people would refuse to sign up, regardless of fines and penalties, and those people would not be covered. Also, all laws must be constitutional, and wouldn't a mandate violate citizens' right to privacy? The question is not only, which plan covers the most people and keeps the cost lowest, but which plan we have the political power to enact. Clinton has not given a clear exlanation of what has changed since she tried to force universal coverage on American in the early 90s. What are the reasons she failed then, and what has changed and how will she do things differently to ensure a different result? That is what we need to know! She seems bent on keeping it a semantic argument over mandates.
Obama's Creative Clippings
The ad may be new, but we've seen this tactic, from this candidate, before.
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Once again, the campaign uses a quote from a news story to say Obama's
health plan would offer universal coverage. But the full article points
out that his plan "does not guarantee" full coverage.
The ad also shows a clip saying that Obama has been against the war in Iraq since the beginning. True enough, but the story also chastises him for making too much of the boldness of his early stance.
This is the second time in as many weeks that we've written about Democratic candidate Barack Obama's misleading use of quotes pulled from newspapers. This ad is running in Nevada in advance of Saturday's caucus.
Obama for America Ad:
"President"
Obama: I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message.
Obama: I'll be a president who finally makes health care affordable to every single American by bringing Democrats and Republicans together. I'll be a president who ends the tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas and put a middle class tax cut into the pockets of working Americans. And I'll be a president who ends this war in Iraq and finally brings our troops home. We are one nation and our time for change has come.
Universally Wrong About Health Care Plan
The ad flashes the quote "Obama offers universal health care plan." That was a headline on a May 29, 2007, Associated Press story.
Correction, Jan. 17: We originally reported that the AP story didn't include the quote used in the ad. We were looking at the final version sent on the AP wire that day. But the Obama campaign contacted us to point out, correctly, that an earlier version of that story included those words as a headline.
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