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Tue 15 Sep, 2009 07:48 am
shroud-waving TV ads = hypocritical TV ads?
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Amid widespread recognition that the U.S. health care system cannot continue its current upward cost spiral, forever widening the life-expectancy gap between rich and poor, Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has made a cameo appearance as bogeyman in politically funded, shroud-waving TV ads. These spots warn citizens that if certain of President Barack Obama’s health care reforms are pushed through, the country will end up with a Third World, socialized health care system " much like the NHS, heaven forfend.1
It means advertisements which predict doom and disaster. A shroud (in this context) is the cloth winding sheet in which bodies used to be buried. So calling the advertisement a "shroud-waving" ad means that the author claims the ad is predicting doom and disaster if the United States adopts a national health service similar to the one in the United Kingdom.
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