Blue Cross Ads By HillaryCare Destroyers

New details about the Blue Cross concern troll campaign are trickling out. It turns out that the print ad was produced by Goddard Claussen. Who you ask?

The ad was produced by Goddard Claussen, the political firm that created the famous "Harry and Louise" ads that helped sink Hillary Clinton's health care reform proposal in 1994. Those ads, funded by health insurance companies, featured a middle class couple raising alarms that Clinton's plan would unleash a confusing national health care bureaucracy.

They are using the same exact fear tactics over again, in attempt to secure their massive profits, while millions go with out care and coverage. Only this time people know exactly what they are up to and are well prepared to parry their attack. Schwarzenegger responded directly to the campaign yesterday, without prompting.

"Blue Cross has already put up an ad where they threaten people and scare people and say `don't change anything,'" Schwarzenegger said during a meeting with high-tech executives at Seagate Technology's office in Sunnyvale. "But we don't pay attention to that."

Actually, you are paying attention quite closely, anything less would be a huge mistake. They were successful back in 1994 and it will take a great deal of effort to overcome their determination to scuttle reform, more than a decade later.

"We always knew there would be people who would like to hold on to the status quo; they don't want changes; they don't want to insure everybody," Schwarzenegger said.

Now that is more accurate. Blue Cross is notorious for cherry picking the healthiest and denying coverage to others. It is among their most odious, but profitable practices.

Anthony Wright has continued to do some excellent fact checking of the wildly inaccurate Blue Cross ads.