Hubbell ad focusing on Medicaid

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https://iowastartingline.com/2018/08/29/will-governors-race-come-down-to-medicaid-or-younkers/

WILL GOVERNOR’S RACE COME DOWN TO MEDICAID OR YOUNKERS?

When Iowans enter the voting booth in November, which will weigh more heavily on their mind: Younkers or Medicaid?

That seems to be what the race for governor is boiling down to at this point as Governor Kim Reynolds and Fred Hubbell are now months into their TV ad campaigns. Reynolds hopes to turn Hubbell’s business executive experience from the 1980s into a liability. Hubbell wants voters to focus on the broken privatized Medicaid system that many see Reynolds mismanaging.

This week, Hubbell rolled out his hardest-hitting ad to date, one that features a quadriplegic man whose in-home care was cut after Medicaid privatization. He had to sell his home and move to get new services.

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1. About damn time

They need to hit on this at least as often as Reynolds does Hubbell's time with Younkers.

"Wah-wah-wah he told me I was lucky to have a job" - um yeah, in the middle of St. Ronnie's farm crisis, you were lucky to have a job.

This is about people dying! We need to shout it from the rooftops!


This ad does pretty well for 30 seconds.

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2. Nearly every Iowa family has a relative or friend who has been adversely affected

by Branstad's insane privatization, by the party's and legislature's support of it and Reynold's making it much worse.

Somehow the ads need to really convey just how personal it is for every Iowa family, every family!

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3. Montgomery County hospital is making staff take one day week off without pay.

Just heard about this. Surgery nurses to insurance coders. I need to dig into why but I think I already know.

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4. Mercy in Iowa City has cut way back

Story I heard was due to low payments or no payments from the MCOs.