Ex-WellPoint exec helped write health-care bill

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http://www.indystar.com/article/20090929/BUSINESS03/909290319/Ex-WellPoint+exec+helped+write+health-care+bill


Liz Fowler, a former public affairs executive for Indianapolis-based health insurance giant WellPoint, helped to craft health-care reform legislation being proposed by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus.

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Fowler worked at WellPoint as a vice president for public affairs from May 2006 through February 2008, according to the company. She was based in Washington. From there, she became Senior counsel to the chairman for Baucus' influential Senate Finance Committee.

The one-page news release from Feb. 26, 2008, that announces Fowler's hiring lists her career highlights, including that she previously worked for Baucus from 2001 to 2005. The release makes no mention of WellPoint, the nation's largest commercial insurer in terms of membership.

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WellPoint spokeswoman Kristin Binns said it was not unusual for public-policy experts such as Fowler to move between the private and public sectors.

"She's highly skilled," Binns said. "Her input in the debate is helpful for everybody involved."
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she is highly skilled and her pockets are full of money

Baucus is untrustable

[dhpgetsit]

1. Isn't that special!

[tularetom]

2. Why not just let her come and vote on it.

Hell just let her be in charge of the whole fuckin thing. We don't need no steenking public option.

[liberal N proud]

3. A government for the corporations by the corporations

[Oregone]

4. Kennedy: "since elements...appear to have originated in the insurance industry itself"

LOL. In 1971, Kennedy called Nixon's similar subsidized/mandated insurance reform "a partnership between the administration and the private health insurance industry. For the private industry, the administration plan offers a windfall of billions of dollars annually. The windfall is not entirely a surplus, since elements of Administration's proposal appear to have originated in the insurance industry itself"

Funny how people keep trying to polish this turd, decades later.