Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Union-Busting Lawyer to Host Biden's 1st Fundraiser Thursday [View all]Celerity
(43,314 posts)Now they are doing the same with MFA and even the much milder buy-in option. No chance Biden should get a free pass on this.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1002805314
As the Supreme Court readies to announce their decision on the individual mandate portion of the health reform, it has emerged that the largest health care lobbying group in the country spent a total of $102.4 million in just 15 months to prevent Obamacare from becoming law in the first place.
In 2009 alone, Americas Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) pumped $86.2 million into a conservative lobbying group, the US Chamber of Commerce, to combat President Obamas health care reform plan. But with the added months of 2010 prior to the ACAs March passage, AHIP piled on an additional $16 million to be used against the bill.
That staggering total, which the National Journals Influence Alley uncovered today, was not out in the open rather, the funds were transferred through a secretive process and listed only by the organization as advocacy spending:
The backchannel spending allowed insurers to publicly stake out a pro-reform position while privately funding the leading anti-reform lobbying group in Washington. The chamber spent tens of millions of dollars bankrolling efforts to kill health care reform.
more at link
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/06/13/499093/health-care-insurers-spent-100-million-to-combat-the-affordable-care-act/
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden