Report: Health Industry Employing Hundreds of Ex-Gov. Officials

[Bill Cosby]

Report: Health Industry Employing Hundreds of Ex-Gov. Officials (http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/6/headlines#8)

Here in the United States, the Washington Post is reporting the nation’s heath care industry has hired more than 350 former government officials and members of Congress to sway health care reform efforts on Capital Hill. According to lobbying records, three out of every four major health care companies have at least one former government insider on the payroll. Nearly half held positions under key committees and lawmakers including Senators Max Baucus and Charles Grassley. Bacaus is chair of the Senate Finance Committee which is largely steering health care reform efforts. Baucus’s aides recently held a meeting with a group of lobbyists that included two of his former chiefs of staff. The Washington Post says the health care industry is now spending $1.4 million dollars a day on lobbying, totaling $126 million dollars in the first fiscal quarter.

[MintJulep]

What does that mean? Insurance companies or hospitals? That means nothing. A handful of govt employees will have no effect on the top brass at those places.

[Bill Cosby]

health care industry is now spending $1.4 million dollars a day on lobbying, totaling $126 million dollars in the first fiscal quarter

Sure. They hired those influential folks & are spending $1.4 million a day in this bad economy for the fun of it....................lol

[MintJulep]

Good. I hope they keep up the good work. I don't want shithole healthcare.

[bluejunk44]

they are spending over a million a day fighting health care reform

but hey, i'm sure they have out best interest at heart

[Bill Cosby]

they are spending over a million a day fighting health care reform

but hey, i'm sure they have out best interest at heart:lmao2: :lmao2:

Sure they do.... The American citizen is their primary concern..... :lmao2:

Not those stock holders & fat cats on the board etc......... Quarterly profits mean nothing compared to the health of Americans....... :thumbsup:

[bluejunk44]

it boggles the mind

health care industry is throwing buckets of money at our politicians and the public in order to keep things the way they are as much as possible. their insane profit depends on that.

and here you have conservatives and even some dems siding with them.


how about they spend less money influencing washington and funnel that same money to help people get better. they can start with all the customers they denied claims to due to some ridiculous loophole.

[disrupter]

Clearly Washington DC is overrun with prostitution,

of every perverse sort imaginable & unimaginable.

US congresspersons & Whitehouse administrators are the highest paid whores on the planet or throughout human history.

[Bill Cosby]

Yep...... LIkely so.............

I have read about the corruption of Rome & her senate...

We hear all the time about some fool getting hung in China for it.......

& here???? teflon dons- above the law...............http://planetsmilies.net/vomit-smiley-1538.gif

[disrupter]

I got a rope. let's get busy & clean up US government.

When the 'legal' system is unjust, the only remaining option is people taking real justice into their own hands.

Think of how satisfying it will be to see these rotten suckers swinging on the end of a rope, mmmmm.

Bring popcorn, potatochips, pizza & yard chairs.

[Bill Cosby]

How did that turn out in France???

If we hung every crook in washington who would be left???

[Surfrider]

http://ceoworld.biz/ceo/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/who-is-barack-obama.jpg

President Barack Obama on Health Care

"Well, I think it should be a right for every American. In a country as wealthy as ours, for us to have people who are going bankrupt because they can’t pay their medical bills--for my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they’re saying that this may be a pre-existing condition and they don’t have to pay her treatment, there’s something fundamentally wrong about that."

Source: 2008 second presidential debate against John McCain Oct 7, 2008

[Bill Cosby]

Great point- He needs to put that into action........

[Surfrider]

Great point- He needs to put that into action........

He is sure trying like hell!

[The Professor]

he should quit trying

his efforts backfire

he's a LOSER salesperson

he's an INEPT pol

the public option is dead

fantasies are for kids

sweet dreams

the public option is dead

sorry