McCain's health care plan: Unbelievable

Though it's tempting to weigh in daily - if not hourly - about health care reform, I have promised to keep my work-related posting to a minimum here. However, I thought you all might appreciate this one.

Health Care for America Now, the group I work for, is on the air in 6 congressional districts, the NH Senate race, and Ohio with ads questioning individual Republican candidates (and McCain) on health care. In the course of creating and testing our ads, we discovered John McCain's health care plans were so unbelievable that people thought we were lying (seriously). I read through the test ad results and was just floored at how many people refused to believe McCain would tax their health care benefits at work, give a $5000 check to the insurance companies and leave families on their own to figure out how to cover the rest of the $12,000 family plan premium, strip away consumer protections by letting companies sell across state lines, and force 20 million out of employer-based health insurance and leave them vulnerable to not being able to get coverage at all in the individual market because of pre-existing conditions.

So we turned around and made a video about how floored we were that no one believed John McCain was proposing what he's actually proposing. All the quotes are real. And nope, that's not my voice: