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Criticism Over Health Care Ads Targeting Paterson
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Jen Chung
Published Feb 3, 2009
Modified Feb 3, 2009
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A marketing effort, protesting Governor Paterson's proposed health care cuts, from Greater New York Hospital Association and health care union 1199 is blasted as a "low blow" by the NY Post and gets a NY Times editorial. Referring to how a wheelchair-bound blind man asks the governor, "Why are you doing this to me?" in a TV ad, the Times writes, "A better question should go to the health unions and hospitals paying for these ads. Mainly, why are you doing this — again? Frightening citizens and trying to intimidate officials working to make sense of health care spending and balance the state budget fairly?" State Department of Health Commissioner Richard Daines wasn't amused by the ads, "There's a passage in Jeremiah that says something like, 'Foolish people who even having eyes do not see.' I think we're really concerned about people who have the eyes to see the problem and aren't choosing to see them."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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