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Health Care Hooey

They’re two of the most common refrains in election season:

“Candidate X will raise your taxes!” “Candidate Y will take away your health care!”

In the hotly contested 2008 presidential election, one ad from Democrat Barack Obama created the perfect storm of election themes, accusing Republican John McCain of planning to increase taxes on your health care. But the ad used outdated sources to justify its claims. In this lesson, students will draw on independent experts to determine the accuracy of Sen. Obama’s charge. This lesson comes in a basic version, for classrooms without Internet access and/or students at the 8th-9th grade level, and a more advanced version, which does require Internet access and is aimed at students at higher grade levels.Learn More
 
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