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Who Owns the Health Care Debate?
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Billy Wharton | 09.12.2009
Considering the number of resources mobilized by the private health insurance lobby, there can be little surprise that HR 3200 is a 1,000-page legislative mess. The pressure of the lobby ensured that any reform is framed as part of new "health insurance exchanges." This idea was concocted by the conservative Heritage Foundation, transmitted by the health care industry lobby, and is now being mouthed by an assortment of politicians as a trailblazing virtue -- note Obama's "choice and competition" slogan.  Obama received big bucks from the private health insurers "It's a bonanza! Hallelujah!" declared ex-private Health Insurance CEO Robert Laszewski when asked about the health care reform being proposed by the US House of Representatives (HR 3200). A seemingly strange reaction, after all the high-sounding rhetoric from the White House about the deficiencies of the private health care industry. Strange, that is, until you begin to follow the money. The health insurance and pharmaceutical lobby works from the top to the bottom of the political system. Large-scale contributions to the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain coupled with smaller payments to all the legislative players in Washington serve to infect all parts of political decision making. For more of this article please visit: |
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