Cleveland Plain Dealer: Health Insurance Industry Launches Own Reform Drive in Ohio

From The Cleveland Plain Dealer: The health insurance industry wants you to know it feels your pain before the next president makes it feel some pain.

To get ahead of the election debate on health-care reform, the nation's main health insurance trade group kicks off a nationwide health-care reform drive in Columbus today with a public meeting between its CEO and a group of uninsured Ohioans. America's Health Insurance Plans is planning events and TV ads throughout the country but picked Ohio to launch its campaign because it's a battleground state that demographically reflects the nation.

Health-care reform ranks just behind the economy and Iraq war as the most important issue to voters, according to a nationwide poll released last week by Quinnipiac University. Health care advocates believe the next president will make changes.

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