Submitted by Rick Smith on January 10, 2008 - 1:36am.
CNA/NNOCs CheneyCare HIGHLIGHTS THE GAP BETWEEN THE VICE PRESIDENT'S HEALTH CARE ANDWHAT THE REST OF US GET Repeating the populist theme of the ads it used in Iowa to garner support forguaranteed, publicly-funded, single-payer health care, California NursesAssociation/National Nurses Organizing Committee ( http://www.calnurses.org/ )isgoing national with its message about CheneyCare (http://www.guaranteedhealthcare.org/ ). With ads in major national newspapers and aslickly-designed website, the campaign asserts that Dick Cheney, with his heartproblems and multiple surgeries, might have been dead by now had he been forced tocontend with the same roadblocks to quality healthcare that most Americans face.Visitors to the site can sign an online petition and notify others about the need for CheneyCare for all. A Reuters article (http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS191894+04-Jan-2008+PRN20080104)points out that CNA/NNOC has also been building a coalition of support for asingle-payer, publicly-funded national health care plan.