Post by weebitty on Feb 7, 2010 13:41:02 GMT -5
Some of you may not like Ron Paul but maybe he could be right. I know I voted for him and would again. IMHO
Backroom Deals
Health care lobbying expenditures total more than any other industry, including agriculture, communications and defense. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year in an attempt to buy the votes of Congress and influence the White House.
The pharmaceutical industry spent $1.5 billion lobbying Congress in the last decade, and in so doing has manipulated the government’s involvement with medicine and reinforced our dependence on them, through government policies.
They spend all that money because it gets results. A leaked memo revealed that the White House and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort of deal that both parties have been denying.
The White House agreed to oppose efforts to use the government's leverage to bargain for lower drug prices or import drugs from Canada. In return, President Obama got support for the bill, including a $150-million advertising campaign (a fortune in politics, but loose change in the pharmaceutical business.)
In addition to containing favorable deals for the drug companies, the bill is also a huge giveaway to the health insurance industry. Health insurance coverage will become mandated for nearly all Americans. If you do not have coverage, you will be fined 2.5 percent of your adjusted income!
It’s not a stretch to believe that the massive amounts of money the insurance companies spend on lobbying might have something to do with that.
cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/56-health-care/414-if-obama-is-so-bright-why-does-he-keep-drawing-the-auto-insurance-analogy-%20
Backroom Deals
Health care lobbying expenditures total more than any other industry, including agriculture, communications and defense. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year in an attempt to buy the votes of Congress and influence the White House.
The pharmaceutical industry spent $1.5 billion lobbying Congress in the last decade, and in so doing has manipulated the government’s involvement with medicine and reinforced our dependence on them, through government policies.
They spend all that money because it gets results. A leaked memo revealed that the White House and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort of deal that both parties have been denying.
The White House agreed to oppose efforts to use the government's leverage to bargain for lower drug prices or import drugs from Canada. In return, President Obama got support for the bill, including a $150-million advertising campaign (a fortune in politics, but loose change in the pharmaceutical business.)
In addition to containing favorable deals for the drug companies, the bill is also a huge giveaway to the health insurance industry. Health insurance coverage will become mandated for nearly all Americans. If you do not have coverage, you will be fined 2.5 percent of your adjusted income!
It’s not a stretch to believe that the massive amounts of money the insurance companies spend on lobbying might have something to do with that.
cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/56-health-care/414-if-obama-is-so-bright-why-does-he-keep-drawing-the-auto-insurance-analogy-%20