2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNot a real Democrat, just someone who's going to dismantle Obama's ACA ...
https://theintercept.com/2016/05/11/lobbyists-dnc-2016-convention/The Host Committees finance chair is Daniel Hilferty. In his day job, Hilferty is CEO of Independence Blue Cross, a health insurance giant that covers nine million people. In December, Hilferty became board chairman of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association of America, a trade group that lobbies for the insurance industry, and he serves on the board of directors of Americas Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the insurance industry lobbying group that spearheaded the campaign against the Affordable Care Act. Lobby registration documents show the BCBS Association is actively supporting a number of Republican bills to roll back provisions of the ACA.
Anyone thinking it was time for America to be shocked to its senses with a Trump administration can relax now ... there is no need to vote for Trump in order to cause a crisis that will wake up America to the need to rebuild a progressive party in America ... Hillary and the 3rd way seem to be well equipped to tear apart the social fabric all on its own.
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(626 posts)brooklynite
(93,851 posts)Host Committee does things like arrange hotel rooms and shuttle buses.
Dem2
(8,166 posts)Do you have any idea the significance of this? No? I didn't think so.
beedle
(1,235 posts)paying the Democratic party's expenses for their convention?? No, please do let me in on how the company I work for makes all employees take an annual business ethics refresher course and test to make sure we don't get involved in any of these pay-for-play kind of sponsorship deals, but it's perfectly okay and harmless for the health sector to do this for political parties?
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)NOT
MattP
(3,304 posts)Better vote Trump
no one is advocating a vote for Trump...just stating the obvious that Clinton is not your progressive candidate
MattP
(3,304 posts)leftinportland
(247 posts)Just because someone noted a corporate millionaire health care lobbyist is in charge of an aspect of the convention you reply in a snark-off way suggesting they vote for Trump. IMO you are wrong. You may march lockstep to the right with this group of 3rd way Dems but some of us won't. We may have to vote for them this time but won't do it quietly.
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