Ad Audit: How Close Is The Message To The Truth About Pending Health Bills And Medicare?

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Article Date: 05 Nov 2009 - 2:00 PDT

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Kaiser Health News staff writer Jordan Rau examines a new ad by a conservative advocacy group that warns that the health care bills now before Congress would hurt Medicare. He finds that the ad uses older Americans to exaggerate the impact of proposed Medicare cuts and ignores some improvements (11/4).

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