The kind of Ad the DNC should run.

[JoePhilly]

Two suburban women are sitting in a nice restaurant having launch.

They are talking about health care and why it is not really their problem if others don't have health care. They have it.

Cut to the kitchen ... where a very sick looking guy is coughing a lot, while putting food onto two plates. One of the other worker says "Hey, have you seen a doctor about that?" ... the sick guy says "Na, I can't afford to and I don't have insurance." ... and the other guy laughs and says "Well, I hope its not swine flu!!" They both laugh.

Then a pretty waitress picks up the plates and we follow her back to the table with the suburban women. "bon appetit!"

This may not be great ... their are probably better scenarios ... but this debate needs to be much more personal.

[Raven]

1. Excellent! Gets the idea across that we are all connected to

eachother whether we like it or not.

[annabanana]

2. Not bad. . .

No one is really safe with the current broken system.

[baldguy]

3. Try to make people understand what's at stake.

[onenote]

4. its a good idea, but in reality, opponents of health care just think sick workers should be fired

[patrice]

5. Gooood one!!! . . . Here's another:

Grocery store: a mother and a child, who look as though they could quite possibly be migrants from south of our border;
- mother is wearing the uniform of one of the local maid services, has cart, with items in it and a child in the "seat";
- mother picks up item from grocery shelf, looks at price, places in cart, proceeds down the ailse;
- mother picks up another item from the grocery shelf, looks at price, places item, a package of cookies perhaps, in the lap of the child sitting in the grocery cart seat, child picks up package of cookies and puts the corner of the plastic package in her mouth;
- mother picks up her purse out of the cart, removes wallet, opens wallet, looks at cash, puts wallet and purse back in cart;
- child handling cookie package, mouthing the package, sneezes and then coughs;
- mother takes the cookies from the child and places it back on the shelf, proceeds down the aisle;
- segue to cupcake-princess pushing her cart down the same aisle, talking on her cell phone and selecting items from the shelves;
- cupcake-princess picks up the same package of cookies and places it on top of the fresh produce which she previously placed in the grocery cart seat and proceeds down the aisle;
- as she passes the camera we hear some bullshit about birth certificates expressed in cupcake-princess speak as she proceeds down the aisle;
- contact info for Americans for Prosperity over background of the cookie package, open, on table at cupcake-club picnic.

[JoePhilly]

10. EXCELLENT

[badgerpup]

6. Oh, YEAH!

:kick: and wish I could rec more than once.

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE, FOLKS...

Poster above is right...
just cos you've got health insurance doesn't mean you won't be affected by somebody who can't afford it.
Diseases are notorious for having HUGE blind spots about stuff like that. :hide::yoiks:

Guess you could say they're TRULY democratic...:evilgrin:

[Pharlo]

7. Set up a health insurance panel

with various assorted (common) ailments being read aloud.

Put them in black and white, with a great big red "DENIAL" stamp on each claim while the insurance 'claims' people laugh and talk about how much they're saving the INSURANCE company and how much their stock will go up...

Then, a voice over saying "We already have rationed health care."

Or, something along those lines.

[patrice]

14. YES! I live around some serious gamers. How about a Hospital Game in which

you have all kinds of sick and hurt people and they draw cards and roll dice for what happens to them.

You could even do this as impromptu street theater with volunteers and minimal costuming, a little bit of acting, and fake blood and stuff. Hang signs around peoples' necks with their symptoms and current status, so an audience can understand what's going on. There could be charicatures like "The Finance Man" and "The Church Lady" and Administrators who hand out and receive big piles of money, and Janitors who don't show up for work etc. etc. etc. You could have big things that happen like epidemics and floods that produce lots of sick/hurt people. And then at the end you'd count score by counting up the "cured", the dead, and those who are still at various stages of being sick.

[Hansel]

8. They show show distraught women who miscarried

or delivered prematurely because of poor prenatal care due to lack of health insurance. They can show the out-of-work a couple putting flowers on their babies' grave. Then show a preemie with tubes coming out of everywhere and its distraught parents.

That's all the right understands anyway.

In another commercial they can show a number of seniors getting excellent care because they have the public option of Medicare and remind people what happened to seniors before Medicare and how it was Democrats who fought for Medicare while the Republicans fought them every second of the way because it was "socialism".

[uponit7771]

9. K & FRACKIN R!!!!

[JoePhilly]

11. Here's another ... in the ER ....

An upper middle class couple, 50s, comes through the doors.

The man has some chest pains .... the woman is telling him it may be a heart attack.

But he is saying no, no, no ... its probably just reflux.

She says, well, at least our insurance will cover it either way.

The person at the desk takes his name ... then says ... "We'll call your name".

The couple proceeds into the waiting area ... its packed with sneezing and coughing people.

Some are bleeding. Some appear asleep or perhaps unconscious.

The couple looks around as if concerned.

The camera shifts to a visual from the man's point of view ... he's watching the show, it is Hannity, or Beck or any of those idiots .... claiming that the US has the best health care system in the world.

His view shifts back to his wife, she looks very concerned ... the images becomes fuzzy, and the screen goes black.

Against the black background ... "Good thing he had health care insurance"

[KakistocracyHater]

12. now all that's needed is for someone to Youtube these & send them

around. Great ideas, putting it all together. Here's 1 more: a breast cancer survivor, with chemo, goes into a movie theater where people are coughing-adults & children. Is it a killer flu, or just a cold? It's the same for anyone with a compromised immune system, from diabetes, to hiv, to getting chemo treatments, & fibromyalgia; these stronger versions of old diseases are making a comeback no one wants to see, as well as the new flus.

[patrice]

13. I like the way that one ends with fuzzy images and screen going black. Powerful stuff there! nt

[cleveramerican]

15. Love it !!!!

This would be great.