Gov. Jon Corzine continues to advocate his support of expanded access to health care while criticizing GOP rival Christopher Christie for a plan that could allow insurance companies to drop coverage for mammograms.
"While I have worked to expand healthcare to cover more kids and passed the paid family leave law to ensure workers can care for sick relatives or newborns, Chris Christie would side with the big insurance companies by giving them free-rein to drop coverage for critical procedures like mammograms," Corzine said during a roundtable discussion today with breast cancer survivors to mark National Mammography Day. "The insurance companies don't need a governor, New Jersey families do."
The Corzine campaign says that Christie has "repeatedly stated his support for healthcare plans that would allow insurance companies to bypass state mandates for procedures including mammograms" and repeated their claim that "big health insurance companies helped raise more than $100,000 for Christie's campaign."
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