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McCain Health Care Plan Bad Deal for Michigan Families, Report Shows

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Leigh Fifelski
September 30, 2008
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Middle Class Families Feel Burn of Shift from Employer-Based

LANSING – With ordinary Americans increasingly struggling under the combined impact of the banking and health care crises, the Center for American Progress Action Fund is preparing to release a report that details how the McCain health care plan would increase the burden on middle-class families in Michigan.

The report, which will be released Wednesday at a joint press conference, will specify the number of Michiganders expected to lose employer-sponsored health insurance under John McCain’s health care plan. It also details the tax hike middle class families would experience over four years under John McCain’s health care plan. Center for American Progress Action Fund Senior Fellow Robert Gordon will join John Freeman, Michigan State Director of Healthcare for Americans Now and Marjorie Mitchell of the Michigan Universal Health Care Network to discuss what the McCain health plan means for Michigan.

HEALTH CARE PRESS CONFERENCE TO DETAIL REPORT
Who: Robert Gordon, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund
John Freeman, Michigan State Director, Healthcare for Americans Now
Marjorie Mitchell, Michigan Universal Health Care Network
With participation from Change to Win and SEIU
What: Press Conference to Release Report on Effects on McCain Health Plan on Michigan
When: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Where: State Capitol, Room 426 Lansing, MI ###