Business group unveils $10 million campaign against health reform

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Business group unveils $10 million campaign against health reform
By Alexander Bolton - 11/12/09 02:03 PM ET


A group that helped defeat President Clinton’s healthcare plan is set to launch a $10 million campaign against the pending legislation.

A pro-business group that helped defeat President Bill Clinton’s healthcare plan announced Thursday a $10 million campaign against the pending healthcare legislation.

The radio and television campaign is part of a wave of ads that advocacy groups have unveiled in the past day.

The Employment Policies Institute, which spent nearly $25 million to stall the card-check legislation that is a top priority of labor unions, said the $10 million campaign would be its largest ever on the issue of healthcare. It will run over the next eight to 10 weeks.

The pro-business group will air ads in six states — Arkansas, Connecticut, Louisiana, Maine, Nebraska and North Dakota — starting Monday. Those states are represented by centrist senators whose votes are critical to passage of the healthcare bill.

“We’re doing a high-saturation campaign in those states,” said spokeswoman Sarah Longwell. “Nobody will miss our ads.”

Ads on national cable stations start this week.

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