Healthcare for America Now coalition includes a who's who list of liberal organizations such as MoveOn.org, the housing group ACORN, Americans United for Change, the Campaign for America's Future, the Center for American Progress Action Fund, the National Education Association, Planned Parenthood, the Service Employees International Union, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, United Food and Commercial Workers, and National Women's Law Center. Many state organizations are also participants.
Many of these are also participating in John Edwards' Half in Ten Poverty Initiative.
Elizabeth Edwards is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress (CAP) Action fund, thus it is not totally surprising that she is leading the effort. Sam Stein at HuffPo reported that Elizabeth Edwards continued her criticisms of McCain's plan with this comment (not certain if it was a conference call or not):
Often Republicans try to skate by the issue of health care without putting out a plan...John McCain didn't do that he completely breaks that mold, nit only does he have a plan he has posed the most radical plan in this race, the most radical plan in my lifetime... It ignores what happens in people's lives, how the insurance industry has worked in the past, and will work in the future, and it ignores other kinds of deregulations.
CAP pointed out that in 2009, McCain's plan would cut a family with $40K in income's taxes by $50, but by 2013, as the value of the credit erodes, this family's taxes would increase more than $1,100. By 2018, they will be paying over $2,800 more.
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Cross-posted from MyDD |
