A health care coalition fighting proposed budget cuts is airing its latest TV ad featuring doctors and nurses who say, "If the legislators we send to Sacramento do their job, we can keep doing ours."
Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access, a consumer group, reports on his blog that the ad will air in the Central Valley, Central Coast, Inland Empire and Palm Springs.
Wright writes those are "regions that will be hit particularly hard by proposed state health care cuts."
Perhaps as important, those regions have cheaper TV advertising rates than the expensive Bay Area and Los Angeles media markets.
This is the second ad in the campaign by the newly formed California Health Care Partnership. The group, which counts the AARP, California Medical Association, Service Employees International Union, Catholic Healthcare West, Kaiser Permanente and Health Access, among its members, aired its first ad in mid-July.
That TV spot aired in the districts of the Republican legislative leaders.
Watch the new ad below:
Here's the ad's full script:
In Sacramento, cutting funding for doctors and hospitals by 10 percent is just a number on a spreadsheet.
But around here, you're going to see fewer nurses, and fewer hospital services for patients.
Cutting back on ambulances will mean slower response times. More time in the waiting room and higher costs we can't afford.
But if the legislators we send to Sacramento do their job, we can keep doing ours.
Stop the health care cuts, or we'll all pay the price.
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