The Lobbyists-First Healthcare Reform Bill

The American Thinker ^ | August 31, 2009 | Kyle-Anne Shiver

[Scanian]

In the vernacular preferred by most men I know, Obamacare could be called the "Screw-You" plan. Just about every special interest in this Country will make out like bandits, while you and I will be...well yes, I hate to say it, but here goes: we taxpayers will be royally screwed.

We pay; they play.

The special interests that elected this president are conducting multi-million dollar ad campaigns to seal the deal on Obamacare. Every one of them has had a very cushy seat at the power table where the bill was written, not on C-SPAN as candidate Obama promised, but behind closed doors.

Good ole boys, whether from Chicago or New Orleans, play ball by the same slimy rules.

Big Pharma, according to Forbes, is expected to spend as much as $150 million on ads supporting Obamacare. The 1997 FDA rule change that opened the door to direct TV ads aimed at patients, rather than their doctors, heralded a golden age of unprecedented profits. But many of those so-called miracle drugs developed in the 90s are about to go

[HiTech RedNeck]

Union bosses spent so much money - about $65 million -- getting Democrats elected last year that they are now on the financial ropes.

HUMM! VERRY INTELESTING!

[Wolfie]

It’s a “Lobbyists First” government. Name a bill, any bill, and the lobbyists come first.

[socialismisinsidious]

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