"BOSTON—Today, the Community Catalyst Action Fund will launch a $250,000 national advertising campaign to highlight the powerful positive impact the Affordable Care Act is having on the lives of Americans and pushback against misconceptions of the law.
The ads, which will air on NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’s Face the Nation and MSNBC’s Morning Joe, feature the story of Julie Adams, a musician, aunt and breast cancer survivor from Nashville, Tennessee. Through health coverage she accessed through the Affordable Care Act, Julie’s cancer was diagnosed early and successfully treated. Julie wouldn’t have been able to afford the care she needed without this coverage. Affordable health insurance through the Affordable Care Act saved her life, and Julie will always remember that – especially when she votes."
"A new ad featuring a woman who credits Obamacare with alleviating her fear of falling ill while uninsured omits the fact that she already had coverage before enrolling in the government program.
“For 20 years, I was afraid — afraid of getting sick and having no health insurance,” Julie Adams of Nashville, Tenn., says in the ad. “But when I got cancer, I finally had a health plan I could afford. . . . I’ll always remember how affordable health care saved my life.”
Ms. Adams’s life might have been saved by the health insurance plan she bought before enrolling for Obamacare, though.
“What a relief!” she writes in a Facebook post announcing a trip to the doctor. “I waited forever because I didn’t have health insurance until this year. Thank you Obama.”
That message was published in March of 2013; the Affordable Care Act didn’t provide benefits until 2014. “The liberal political activist in the ad claiming she was uninsured until Obamacare saved her life actually bought a private plan a year before Obamacare started,” says Phil Kerpen of American Commitment, a conservative nonprofit. “And the same media ‘fact checkers’ who viciously attacked cancer patients who spoke out against Obamacare didn’t even bother to question it.”