A GOP outside group aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance On The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline The Hill's Campaign Report: Trump faces backlash after not committing to peaceful transition of power MORE (R-Ky.) is launching a multimillion-dollar ad campaign against “Medicare for All.”

The group One Nation is spending $4 million on the first round of TV, radio and digital ads nationwide, but the full 18-month campaign will exceed that total.

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“How long will you wait for care?” the

ad’s narrator

states. “In other countries with socialized health care, patients wait weeks, even months, for treatment. Everyone forced into the same government plan no matter how serious.”

Highlight perceived flaws in Medicare for All is a central GOP line of attack for the 2020 campaign.

Republicans are trying to pivot the health care debate away from ObamaCare and pre-existing conditions, issues that helped Democrats win back the House last year, to a warning of change and disruption from a government-run health insurance system for all.

“If you’re a union worker, a family dependent on employer insurance, or a senior relying on traditional Medicare, so-called Medicare for All will turn your world upside down,” One Nation President Steven Law, a former chief of staff for McConnell, said in a statement.

The ad campaign's launch comes ahead of the first Democratic presidential debates next week, where several of the leading candidates have embraced Medicare for All, though it remains a key dividing line within the crowded Democratic field.

“Medicare for All would eliminate private insurance for 180 million people,” the ad states. “You and every American waiting in the same government-run plan.”

The plan has been a major sticking point between top-tier 2020 Democratic candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersThe Hill's Campaign Report: Trump faces backlash after not committing to peaceful transition of power Bernie Sanders: 'This is an election between Donald Trump and democracy' The Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump stokes fears over November election outcome MORE (I-Vt.) and former Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenPelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Hillicon Valley: Subpoenas for Facebook, Google and Twitter on the cards | Wray rebuffs mail-in voting conspiracies | Reps. raise mass surveillance concerns Fox News poll: Biden ahead of Trump in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Ohio MORE, who was the vice president when ObamaCare became law.

Biden has proposed giving everyone an opportunity to buy into Medicare but has stopped short of backing the Medicare for All proposal that has been championed by Sanders.