The Greater New York Hospital Association and health care union 1199 have unveiled a campaign protesting Governor Paterson's proposed cuts to health services and hospitals around the state. Politicker NY reports, "A mailer being sent to a million homes juxtaposes Paterson's name with a sad-looking woman hovering over a hospital bed." And the NY Times notes how in the TV ads, "nurses and patients take a personal swipe at the governor, imploring, 'Why are you doing this?' At one point, a nurse says, 'I can’t believe Governor Paterson is the one making this proposal.' Then a man, blind and in a wheelchair, asks the governor, who is legally blind, 'Why are you doing this to me?'" More details about the campaign at the Protect Health Care website and here's how Paterson proposes to cut health care spending.





I couldn't get away from these commercials all weekend.
'Why are you doing this to me?'
Answer: Sutton's Law.
Harvey Weinstein uses a motorized chair?..On a serious note, our Governor keeps hammering nails in his own coffin.
Huh? From what I understand, he's applied cuts uniformly across every sector of government. That ad could be followed by one from the teacher's union reminding us that children are our future, and one from cops about how they just want to protect and serve, and then one from social workers about how the homeless nutjobs they look after are really going to suffer more. They could all say "waah, how could you DO this?"
He has to balance the budget - unlike the feds, he can't borrow when revenue goes down.