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Open Question: Do you think Repubs are “a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry”?
This is coming from a House Democrat.
Do you think he knows Chris Dodd’s wife sits on 4 health care company boards??
Or that Democrats received more lobbying money from the insurance industry last year than Republicans did??
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/24/weiner-gop-is-wholly-owne_n_475576.html
The Republican Party is “a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry,” Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) charged on the House floor. When Republican Rep. Dan Lungren (Calif.) objected to the accusation and took the extraordinary step of asking that Weiner’s “words be taken down,” Weiner pushed back.
“You really don’t want to go here, Mr. Lungren,” Weiner said. Asking that words be taken down is a move on the House floor that is rarely made and carries great weight.
Weiner, after a pause, asked to have his words withdrawn and said he’d substitute new ones. “Make no mistake about it. Every single Republican I have ever met in my entire life is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the insurance industry,” Weiner clarified.
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=F09
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.php?cycle=2010&ind=F09
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/47922277.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUxWoW_oD:EaDUiacyKUzyaP37D_MDua_eyD5PcOiUr
WASHINGTON – Influential senators working to overhaul the nation’s health care system have investments and family ties with some of the biggest names in the industry. The wife of Sen. Chris Dodd, the lawmaker in charge of writing the Senate’s bill, sits on the boards of four health care companies.
Members of both parties have industry connections, including Democrats Jay Rockefeller and Tom Harkin, in addition to Dodd, and Republicans Tom Coburn, Judd Gregg, John Kyl and Orrin Hatch, financial reports showed Friday. .
Jackie Clegg Dodd, wife of the Connecticut Democrat, is on the boards of Javelin Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cardiome Pharma Corp., Brookdale Senior Living and Pear Tree Pharmaceuticals.
LH……………”Just because Democrats sold out to big pharma doesn’t mean Republicans haven’t.”
lol………..I think they ALL sold out at some point. We just need to get rid of them in 2010.
quan………..So despite the fact Democrats received more lobbying money from the insurance industry…….and despite the fact Democrats are the ones pushing for an individual mandate to buy private insurance……you still think it’s just Republicans??
quan……..” I think it’s a bit of a stretch to say that Democrats who are pushing for the Public Option”
I’ll agree that the ones ACTUALLY pushing for a public option probably aren’t. But you’re not defending these “centrist” Dems are you??
Open Question: Is the Obama Agenda, simply put, Socialism?
CNBC News reported today on a speech given by President Obama to the business Roundtable in which he defended his business policies and rejected some critiques of his that have called his agenda “Socialism”
http://www.cnbc.com/id/35564308
Dictionary.com defines Socialism as:
1.Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.
Now what did the Obama Administration do when they bailed out the Auto companies (the largest manufacturers on Earth)?
How about the super-regulated financial industry (with limits on pay rates) amongst other thing?
Or the attack on the Insurance industry in Congressional hearing TODAY?
Not to mention the Health Care Deform plan to have the Government take of 1/6th of the economy?
I say thats “Socialism”…but thats MY take….
WHAT SAY YOU AMERICA?
Please opine with pithy comments from anywhere (even the Kremlin!) anytime anytime if so inclined. And when answering, please try not to offend the collective in Washington! And remember, the spin stops here because we’re llookingout for you in the No Spin Zone!
Resolved Question: Does anybody know if the backroom deal between BIG PhRMA and the White House is still included in the bill?
The health care bill that is….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-blumenthal/the-legacy-of-billy-tauzi_b_460358.html
More than a million spectators gathered before the Capitol on a frosty January afternoon to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama, who promised in his campaign to change Washington’s mercenary culture of lobbyists, special interest influence and backroom deals. But within a few months of being sworn in, the President and his top aides were sitting down with leaders from the pharmaceutical industry to hash out a deal that they thought would make health care reform possible.
Over the following months, pharmaceutical industry lobbyists and executives met with top White House aides dozens of times to hammer out a deal that would secure industry support for the administration’s health care reform agenda in exchange for the White House abandoning key elements of the president’s promises to reform the pharmaceutical industry. They flooded Congress with campaign contributions, and hired dozens of former Capitol Hill insiders to push their case. How they did it–pieced together from news accounts, disclosure forms including lobbying reports and Federal Election Commission records, White House visitor logs and the schedule Sen. Max Baucus releases voluntarily–is a testament to how ingrained the grip of special interests remains in Washington…………..On August 4, the Los Angeles Times, in an exclusive report, featured quotes from Tauzin claiming that a deal between the White House and PhRMA existed and that, as Tauzin put it, “The White House blessed it.” Tom Hamburger wrote in the article, “For his part, Tauzin said he had not only received the White House pledge to forswear Medicare drug price bargaining, but also a separate promise not to pursue another proposal Obama supported during the campaign: importing cheaper drugs from Canada or Europe.”
The White House’s Jim Messina later confirmed Tauzin’s claim, stating, “The president encouraged this approach … He wanted to bring all the parties to the table to discuss health insurance reform.”
Democratic lawmakers were furious. Rep. Raul Grijalva, chairman of the Progressive Caucus, asked, “Are industry groups going to be the ones at the table who get the first big piece of the pie and we just fight over the crust?”
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