An Open Letter to My Senator, Bill Nelson (D-FL)
January 20, 2010 by admin.
Reader – If you concur with these views please be sure to write to YOUR senators and Representative.#####
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Dear Senator Nelson,
The debacle last night in
Massachusetts does not necessarily signal the end of the world for our party.
It was clearly, however, a stunning wake-up call but there IS hope.
To recover the high ground, even by this November, the answer is really quite simple.
First allow the less than worthless Senate health bill, the one that you all let the health insurance industry write [and everybody knows it], just fade away. Immediately thereafter just pivot to support what 60-70% of the American people have wanted all along; namely an unrestricted opt-in “Medicare for All” real public option. Along with that include a provision that allows Medicare to negotiate with big pharma for volume discounts just as the VA is allowed to do and once all this happens, you will be simply amazed at how fast the fortunes of the Democratic Party will be revived.
That’s it… period! No need for some 2000 page monstrosity that nobody understands and everybody hates. Along the way we can begin to fix Medicare reimbursement rates and also revive the concept of more public health clinics which was the only good thing contained in the current bill.
Now go out and do the right thing!
Thank you,Larry Pius
PS. Creating a few jobs wouldn’t hurt either, but that won’t happen to any large degree until somebody wakes up and fixes the “free trade” mess.
PPS. To really seal the deal get Obama to replace Geitner and Summers with Reich and Krugman.
Why is Big Pharma Backing Coakley over Brown?
January 19, 2010 by admin.
IT just gets sicker by the minute!
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If Health Care was meant to benefit the people instead of the Insurance Companies and Big Pharma then the people instead of the Insurance Companies and Big Pharma would be fighting like hell to keep the 60th seat in Democratic hands right?
Likewise, if Big Pharma and Insurance companies were really the Astroturf behind the August Town Halls trying to kill health care reform, wouldn’t they be pumping money into the Brown Campaign now? Of course they would.
But what would it mean if they are pumping money into the Coakley campaign in order to keep the 60th seat in Democratic hands? Fool you once shame on them – fool you twice – then you are just a damned fool! Perhaps this will awaken you? If Coakley wins then you had better join the tea parties and march your buts down to DC and help us stop this – as you can see- its just another Obama lie! let’s see what did he call them when he said they were really working for the other side? Oh that’s right – Fat Cats! Well those Fat Cats and Lobbyists are now desperately trying to defeat Scott Brown. Hmmmmm
*Update This outlines the incredibly nasty deal Obama made with the big pharmaceutical companies. It stinks to high heaven and hurts consumers.
Chicago politics at its worst. Although it’s from
Huffington Post, it is accurate (and others have confirmed it).
White House Pharma Memo Internal Memo Confirms Big Giveaways In White House Deal With Big Pharma
We’ve been following the special election in
Massachusetts, where the GOP hopes to pull a surprise upset in the race to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat.If they do pull it off, healthcare reform is instantly in trouble, as the Democrats drop below 60. But money is coming to the rescue of Democrat Martha Coakley — healthcare industry lobbyist money, specifically.Tim Carney identifies several of her top fundraisers. Take a look at who they represent:
- Thomas Boggs, Patton Boggs: Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Chuck Brain, Capitol Hill Strategies: Amgen, BIO, Merck, PhRMA
- Susan Brophy, Glover Park Group: Blue Cross, Pfizer
- Steven Champlin, Licy Do Canto, Raben Group: Amgen
- Gerald Cassidy, Cassidy & Associates: U. Mass Memorial Health Care
- David Castagnetti, Mehlman, Vogel, Castagnetti: Abbot Labs, AHIP, Astra-Zenaca, General Electric, Humana, Merck, PhRMA.
- Steven Elmendorf, Elmendorf Strategies: Medicines Company, PhRMA, United Health
- Shannon Finley, Capitol Counsel: Amgen, Astra-Zeneca, Blue Cross, GE, PhRMA, Sanofi-Aventis.
- Heather Podesta, Heather Podesta & Partners: Cigna, Eli Lilly, HealthSouth
- Tony Podesta, Podesta Group: Amgen, GE, Merck, Novartis.
- Robert Raben, Raben Group: Amgen, GE.
Of course, this is how politics works. Lobbyists for various corporations and causes get involved wherever they can for candidates of both parties. But when you see all these big pharma (and insurance!) representatives coming with cash for a crucial vote, you know which side they’re on. And they are definitely not on the side the Democrats tried to tell you the were on are they? Why is that? Could it be that this health care bill suits them better than it suits We The People? It certainly can’t suit all of us at once can it? Obama and Reid and Pelosi told us these characters were paying the Republicans to stop the health care bill and here they are trying to make sure it passes! Hmmmmmm! IMAGINE THAT!