Hospitals and a health care workers? union in New York plan to mount an advertising campaign to defeat spending cuts proposed by President Bush ? their first attempt to affect national policy with a strategy they have used statewide. Officials of the union and the hospital association said they would also run ads in New York State attacking Gov. Eliot Spitzer?s proposed medical spending cuts as a danger to the health care system. On the national level, the officials said the campaign would probably take aim at key members of Congress ? those on important committees and those who are likely to be swing votes ? with ads in their home districts and in Washington, to persuade them to oppose the president?s cuts.
See "Industry Plans National Attack on Proposed Health Care Cuts", Richard Perez-Pena, The New York Times, February 12, 2007