Video ad from Calif.NursesAssoc. Obama's health plan needs work too.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLNTB-4t4Ns

In the last of a series of three broadcast and Internet ads in Iowa, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee and Physicians for a National Health Program call on Sen. Barack Obama to support a single-payer, guaranteed healthcare system as the only effective cure for ever-skyrocketing healthcare costs.

The ad, which began running on Iowa stations this afternoon, features a young woman telling a cardboard stand-in for Sen. Obama that “we never dreamed that we’d face bankruptcy over our medical bills.”

Despite increasing premiums, high deductibles “and all the co-pays, still the insurance companies fight us over every penny.”

“We need real leadership,” the woman tells Sen. Obama. “It’s not good enough just to be better than the Republicans on this.”

Created by Bill Hillsman and North Woods Advertising, the ad can be seen on YouTube or at PNHP.org. More information is also available at GuaranteedHealthcare.org. The ads coincide with appearances of the Democratic presidential candidates in Iowa this week, culminating in a debate Sunday on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

In frequent comments, Sen. Obama has verbally chastised the insurance and drug companies, yet his healthcare plan “fails to rein in the healthcare industry pricing practices that have put so many American families at financial and health risk,” says CNA/NNOC President Deborah Burger, RN.

“Sen. Obama should adopt a single-payer plan because it is the only one that will control costs and eliminate the private insurance industry,” said Quentin Young, MD cofounder of Physicians for National Health Program. http://www.calnurses.org/media-center/press-releases/2007/august/page.jsp?itemID=31699326