jugoso Posted December 6, 2012 #1 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Few people embody the corporatist revolving door greasing Washington as purely as Elizabeth Fowler. Whatever one's views on Obamacare were and are: the bill's mandate that everyone purchase the products of the private health insurance industry, unaccompanied by any public alternative, was a huge gift to that industry; as Wheeler wrote at the time: "to the extent that Liz Fowler is the author of this document, we might as well consider WellPoint its author as well." Watch the five-minute Bill Moyers report from 2009, embedded below, on the key role played in all of this by Liz Fowler and the "revolving door" between the health insurance/lobbying industry and government officials at the time this bill was written and passed. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/05/obamacare-fowler-lobbyist-industry1 Who´s your Daddy??!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hasina Posted December 6, 2012 #2 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Romney left the White House? -ba-dum-tsh- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Startraveler Posted December 6, 2012 #3 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Some staffer is not the reason there's no public option. That honor belongs to our esteemed members of Congress. Public option would lead him to filibuster, key senator says - CNN Independent Sen. Joseph Lieberman said Tuesday he would join a Republican filibuster to block the final vote on any health care bill that has a government-run public health insurance option.Lieberman's vote is crucial to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's hopes of passing a health care bill that includes the controversial public option. Reid announced Monday he would send to the full Senate a health care bill that has a public option but also allows states to opt out of that provision. Lincoln: “I’ll Filibuster A Public Option Bill” | TPMDC Conservative Democrats are making it very clear that they’ll switch their vote and kill the bill down the line if the public option doesn’t get stripped out of it.“Let me be perfectly clear,” Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) said on the floor of the Senate. “I am opposed to a new government administered health care plan as a part of comprehensive health insurance reform, and I will not vote in favor of the proposal that has been introduced by Leader Reid as it is written…. I’ve already alerted the Leader and I’m promising my colleagues that I’m prepared to vote against moving to the next stage of consideration as long as a government-run public option is included.” That’s pretty compatible with what Mary Landrieu told reporters earlier this afternoon. “I believe it’s going to be very clear at some point very soon that there are not 60 votes for the current provision in the bill, and that the leader and the leadership are going to have to make a decision and I trust that they will figure out how to do that,” Landrieu said. Ben Nelson Says He Might Block Dem Health Care Bill - Political Hotsheet - CBS News Nelson said he was concerned about the proposal to create a public option. Reid is including in his bill a public option from which states could opt out."I have said I would look at an opt in for the states, or an option for the states to be able to create their own alternative," Nelson said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+and-then Posted December 7, 2012 #4 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Some staffer is not the reason there's no public option. That honor belongs to our esteemed members of Congress. Public option would lead him to filibuster, key senator says - CNN Lincoln: “I’ll Filibuster A Public Option Bill” | TPMDC Ben Nelson Says He Might Block Dem Health Care Bill - Political Hotsheet - CBS News When the ACA fully comes into it's own I suspect it will collapse under it's own weight very quickly. Then the single payer will be accepted by default. I think that was Oby's plan from jump. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Startraveler Posted December 7, 2012 #5 Share Posted December 7, 2012 If private insurance markets don't work, there aren't going to be all that many options left. That said, I don't see any inherent reason well-functioning private markets can't work in this area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightly Posted December 10, 2012 #6 Share Posted December 10, 2012 (edited) Am i the only one that sees the Big winners in the AHCA being the Insurance companies and the Drug companies? I'll agree with you and then, that it was a plan.. but Obama ? nahhh people give presidents far too much credit. They are salesmen i tell ya. *spelled it worng Edited December 10, 2012 by lightly 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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