Posted on 11/18/2011 2:51:00 AM PST by Fred
A think tank founded by GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich collected at least $37 million over the past eight years from major health-care companies and industry groups, offering special access to the former House speaker and other perks, according to records and interviews.
The Center for Health Transformation, which opened in 2003, brought in dues of as much as $200,000 per year from insurers and other health-care firms, offering some of them “access to Newt Gingrich” and “direct Newt interaction,” according to promotional materials. The biggest funders, including firms such as AstraZeneca, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Novo Nordisk, were also eligible to receive discounts on “products and workshops” from other Gingrich groups.
The health center advocated, among other things, requiring that “anyone who earns more than $50,000 a year must purchase health insurance or post a bond,” a type of insurance mandate that has since become anathema to conservatives.
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“Meet the new boss.... same as the old boss”.
LLS
Add crony in front of it and yes... we are against crony capitalism and manipulating markets and proaganda to increase the power of a central government plan. Capitalism cannot survive the cronies... it dies and becomes communism.
LLS
Newt is NOT on our side. He's a RINO and out only for himself, as his record plainly shows.
Do you support RINOs? I thought that Free Republic was a CONSERVATIVE forum and NOT necessarily a Republican forum. It seems that a lot of people have forgotten that too.
That is just not true, Newt never lobbied congress.
I'm a Herminator, but let's try and get some facts correct.
Do you have any idea why businesses pay Consulting Companies billions of dollars for their Ideas?
Ever hear of Deloitte & Touche and their counterparts?
IBM has a consulting group {mostly with technical solutions that promote IBM stuff, but not always} and businesses pay them billions for their advice, whether the end user ends up buying IBM solutions or not.
There is a large gap between consultants and lobbyists.
Man: I have reached a point where I want to throw all of the Candidates in the toilet and start fresh.
I guess the attacks are working.
They all look like sh*t.
Gingrich claims he never attempted to influence legislators. Have you evidence he spoke to any of them, offered them anything in order to get legislation past?
He claims as an adviser he gave the an opinion on how things they wanted could get done.
“No, he was apparently not a lobbyist so registered with Congress.”
Above renders the rest of what you say irrelevant. The explicit claim of the story is Gingrich acted as a lobbyist and there is not a shred of evidence to prove this. It’s a hit piece pure and simple and you fell for it because it’s what you want to believe.
WP's Horse finshes second, competitor's horse next-to-last.Deceptive semantics. Insert Lincoln's quote about fooling people here.
It would take a year to get a business executive who was a federal reserve governor a year to understand the economy. Not to mention his role representing an entire industry to to advocate policy. You folks are smoking crack. Cain has spent a lifetime understanding how government should create a food environment for job creation.
Hell, he was on tv beating up Clinton 12 years on health care before Romney or Gingrich were advocating government health care. Yep. He’s the one without understanding.
“What are we anti capitalism”
Beginning to look that way, isn’t it?
People need to wake up and understand that there is NEVER going to be a perfect human being that we can elect as president. I think Speaker Gingrich would do an excellent job as president. Will he make some mistakes? Of course. Who wouldn’t? Will he begin to clean up the horrendous mess caused by Obama and the radical Democrats. YES!
When I criticize say,Romney,I make sure to point out that I'm leaning towards Cain—that way the evil ignorant and anti-American Mittbotts can try in vain to argue the nonexistent merits of their chosen rubberhead.
And saying,”I not for anyone yet” is a disingenuous and cowardly cop-out that only a troll would say.
Even though you and I know that the msm lies, their repeating of the same mantra over and over has their desired effect.
Don't lose Faith, any of these candidates {except huntsman and paul} would be miles ahead of obummer.
Paul has no foreign policy, and huntsman would bring in libs for everything.
I agree with your definition, but, nonetheless, this was a think tank that recommended health insurance mandates and a universal drug entitlement rather than one aimed solely at the poor. Newt believes strongly in the power of big government to alleviate social ills.
Although, I pretty much felt that way right from the beginning.
Leni
if newt were a democrat what would you call his actions. Be honest now.
You've learned that in the two weeks since you joined? What you may not have noticed is that we do not debate the relative (de)merits of Democrats, but of Republicans. If you do not understand why, then you need a little more time on site.
After the field is narrowed to one Presidential candidate, the entire field needs to become an "administration package of experts" to counter this country's present anti-conservative agenda.
The new "Contract with America".
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