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Nurses Ad On Health Care In Iowa: If Cheney Were Anyone Else He'd Be Dead

Print ads demanding health care reform will blanket Iowa newspapers on

Monday Dec. 11. The California Nurses Association (CNA) / National

Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) are running the ads as part of a

national campaign pushing for guaranteed health care coverage for all

Americans through a Medicare-based system.

The ad uses recent headlines about Vice-President Dick Cheney's heart

procedure to point out the difference between the government-funded

health care that the nation's leading politicians enjoy and the

precarious health care situation in which most Americans find

themselves.

A news article about Cheney's recent treatment for heartbeat

irregularities provides the context with the headline: "If he were

anyone else, he'd probably be dead by now." The text highlights that

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