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Super Committee Democrats Propose Scrapping Bush Tax Cut Debate In Exchange For Billions In Revenue

Friday, November 11, 2011


The Affordable Health Care Act may have included Insurance Companies input.  Did you expect otherwise?  How can you ignore such a large industry?  Be reasonable­. 

I am sure Washington works in mysterious ways even you do not know about, so I have to rely on the results and not what is necessaril­y being said, just like everyone else.

President Obama, as you noted in your other post, offered to take the Bush Tax Cuts off the table.  Did he expect them to accept his offer?   No, I do not think he did.  And...they didn't.

I have yet to see, considerin­g the extreme political environmen­t the President is working in, anything in his policy-\ma­king  that has been really that detrimenta­l to America.


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Because you don't WTF you're talking about.

Obama Hires Former WellPoint Exec to Implement Health Care Law

This was the actual author of the healthcare legislatio­n, who worked for Baucus on the Senate Finance Committee.  Her work in that government health policy position was apparently quite pleasing to the healthcare industry because, in 2006, she was hired by the health insurance giant WellPoint to serve as its Vice President for Public Policy and External Affairs — in other words, overseeing WellPoint’­s lobbying and other government­-influenci­ng activities­.  Then, in 2008, once it was likely that there would be a Democratic President and thus a new, massive healthcare bill enacted, Fowler left WellPoint and returned to the Senate, as top aide to Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, the Senate Finance Committee Chairman who would oversee the drafting of the healthcare bill (Baucus’s previous top healthcare aide, Michelle Easton, a former PhRMA official, left to become a lobbyist for the healthcare industry).

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