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Obama for America

"Promises" +

:30 ad from Aug. 25, 2012 run in CO, IA, NV, OH and VA.

Obama (voiceover): I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message.

[Music] Male Announcer: It’s a promise that was made long ago.

You work hard, pay in. Your Medicare benefits are guaranteed.

But Mitt Romney would break that promise…

Replace your benefits with a voucher.

Insurance companies could just keep raising rates.

Instead of a guarantee, seniors could pay sixty four hundred dollars more a year.

AARP says the plan Mitt Romney supports undermines Medicare.

Mitt Romney.  An end to the Medicare Promise.

Notes: From the press release...

Today, Obama for America released the new television advertisement “Promise,” detailing how President Obama knows that Medicare is a sacred trust with our seniors: if you work hard and pay in, your Medicare benefits are guaranteed. It explains how Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would break this promise, turning Medicare into a voucher system, and eliminating Medicare’s guarantee. Instead of that guarantee, seniors could pay $6,400 more a year out of their own pockets – which is why AARP has declared that such a voucher plan “would undermine the market power of Medicare.”