AARP Ramps Up Battle Against Health Care Reform Misinformation

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Wed Aug-12-09 09:04 AM
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AARP Ramps Up Battle Against Health Care Reform Misinformation

http://www.laborradio.org/node/11725

The AARP is rolling out a new campaign to battle misinformation regarding health care reform. Bob O�Connell is with AARP New York�s Executive Council and he says one of the biggest fears he has heard is that reform would lead to elimination or reductions in coverage they are currently happy with:

: �what the President has proposed, is that we not change people who are satisfied with their current health coverage; they can maintain that. But some of the myths that have been going around have created that kind of anxiety."

The AARP is rolling out an informational campaign in all 50 states to make sure Congress knows that those over 50 want to fix what�s broken and preserve what works. The organization hopes the advertising campaign on television, radio and in print will set the record straight.

: "People are basically coming up with a lot of myths about health care proposals that are floating around and they're distorting everything."

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