Source: Raw Story
By Stephen C. Webster
Republican scare-mongering of Democratic health reform has officially come back to bite them -- hard -- in a rather juvenile ad from an independent Democratic group.
The ad, by advocacy group The Agenda Project, depicts a man in a black suit, ostensibly a stand-in for Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), pushing an elderly woman in a wheelchair off a cliff.
It evokes all the worst images from 2009's summer-long health reform debate, in which Republicans on Fox News insisted for months that offering insurance coverage for "end-of-life care" was somehow akin to establishing what they called "death panels" that would decide who was worthy of saving.
Agenda Project's ad is a response to Rep. Ryan's plan to end the public health program Medicare, which currently supports the well-being of more than 46 million Americans. Ryan's plan would convert Medicare into a coupon program over the next decade and force many seniors to seek care from the more costly private market.
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