Can Top Recipient of Healtcare Lobbyist Cash Reform Healthcare
by TarHeel, Sun Mar 25, 2007 at 11:41:53 AM EDT
I'm reading some of the reviews on the SEIEU healthcare forum and some things are fairly consistent. 1. Edwards was the only one with a detailed plan and firm committment to pay for it. 2. Obama does not have a plan yet but is developing one. 3. If we re-elect Hillary there will be some as yet undefined plan too.
However, no one is talking about how a top recipient of healthcare lobbyist money is going to be expected to reform healthcare. Maybe I'm a naderite but how can someone who takes so much money from this special interest group be expected to actually reform it in a positive way for consumers?
The company Senator Clinton has with this issue are uniformly horrible.
Top recipients in Congress from the HealthCare Industry 2006:
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/re cips.asp?Ind=H&cycle=2006
Rank Candidate Office Amount1 Santorum, Rick (R-PA) Senate $1,382,169
2 Clinton, Hillary (D-NY) Senate $1,273,298
3 Johnson, Nancy L (R-CT) House $1,209,288
4 Kyl, Jon (R-AZ) Senate $1,090,098
5 Talent, James M (R-MO) Senate $940,233
6 Lieberman, Joe (I-CT) Senate $901,810
7 Corker, Bob (R-TN) Senate $779,577
8 DeWine, Mike (R-OH) Senate $730,129
9 Barton, Joe (R-TX) House $710,484
10 Hatch, Orrin G (R-UT) Senate $707,882
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