Kucinich Hits Back At Gibbs: You've Read Liberals Wrong

Obama provided the different congressional committees working on healthcare bills with specifics that he wanted to see in the legislation ("doesn't add to the deficit", for example), but how Congress achieved it was up to Congress. The People noticed that Obama was waffling on his pledges (public option, no mandates) at which point Obama threw his "transparency"-pledge under the bus, and went to work undercutting all of the congressional committees working on healthcare reform legislation except one: The Senate Finance Committee.



Through that committee's chairman, Max Baucus, Obama set the terms for the bill that would ultimately be adopted into law, by eliminating single payer universal health care from consideration and all advocates of public health care. No seat at the table.



And THEN, Obama cut secret deals with hospitals, insurance companies and PhRma on profits, and L!ED about it when it was discovered:



http://www.nbc11news.com/home/headlines/53311447.html



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31464689/ns/politics-white_house



http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124567211118336815.html



http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/health/jan-june09/pharma_06-22.html



http://www.huf fingtonpost.com/2009/08/13/internal-memo-confirms-bi_n_258285.html



http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/health/policy/13health.html?_r=3&hp



http://www.alternet.org/story/141856/obama's_$80_billion_deal_with_pharma_is_a_very_bad_deal_for_us/



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