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Article: Progressive Groups to Spend More Than $82 Million to Ensure Real Health Care Reform Passes This Year.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- June 15, 2009
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Progressive groups are poised to spend more than $82 million to support President Obama's goal of achieving quality, affordable health care for all this year, according to leaders gathered today at the "America's Future Now" conference in Washington (see also Campaign for America's Future).
Participants in the effort include the Health Care for America Now campaign; the two main labor federations, the AFL-CIO and Change To Win; as well as MoveOn.org, Democracy for America and mobilization groups representing people of color, women and young people. The various organizations serve different functions, with the bulk of the spending financing advertising and ...