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A new Save My Care ad targeting Republican congresspeople who supported the AHCA
Following the House of Representatives vote to pass the Republican health care bill, a left-leaning advocacy group, Save My Care, launched a $500,000 campaign targeting 24 Republican congresspeople who voted to repeal and replace President Barack Obama's signature healthcare legislation.The ads, which are a mix of television and digital, accuse congressional Republicans of voting to raise healthcare costs on average Americans and seniors, strip insurance from 24 million individuals, and raise costs for those with pre-existing conditions. It describes the GOP's American Health Care Act as a "disastrous health care repeal bill" that is opposed by the American Medical Association, the AARP, and the American Cancer Society.
"How could you do this to us?" the ad asks lawmakers.
Most of the two dozen Republicans targeted in the campaign either barely won in the 2016 election or represent districts that were carried by Hillary Clinton or narrowly won by President Donald Trump in the presidential election.
Democrats are hoping the congressmembers' votes for the Obamacare replacement legislation will help drive them out of office in the 2018 midterm elections.
The effort is reminiscent of a similar campaign (with opposite aims) launched by conservative groups in 2009 and 2010 to whip up anti-Obamacare sentiment, which helped Republicans take control of the House and gain a significant number of seats in the Senate in the 2010 midterm elections.
Here are all of the Republicans being targeted by the Save My Care campaign: