According to Reuters today, Obama is urging “a new spirt of compromise on healthcare.” What might that mean, you wonder. Well, Senator Jay Rockefeller seems to think it means big payoffs to the healthcare industry, in exchange for a hollow legislative victory. He estimates that, in the current draft of the healthcare reform bill being […]
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It’s time to peel off the Obama decals and set the lobbyists on fire
Posted in Health Also tagged burning things in effigy, call to action, change, Change decals, compromise, corporate socialism, corporate subsidies, corporate welfare, corruption, Daschle, Frank Rich, Gephardt, healthcare reform, Heather Podesta, Jay Rockefeller, lobbyists, money in politics, Obama stickers, Senate Finance Committee, special interests, the public option, Thomas Frank, UnitedHealth, Wall Street run healthcare, “I intend to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over.” 27 Comments