Health-care lobbyists continue spending spree

Junkies are renowned for selling their blood and plasma so they can afford their next fix. These corporations and their lobbyists have taken this to a new level by sucking OUR blood and selling it so they can amass more money and power. Wealth and power is the jones they're feeding, and they'll do anything to get more of it.

Time to get these junkies out of our society and slam 'em all into rehab until they mend their ways. We won't let them bleed us dry anymore.

What I find amazing is that working class people have been convinced to side with the hospitals and insurance companies. Are these people crazy ?

Healthcare as we know it will never fix itself... and its because big money that gets ini the way. Your not going to ever convince me the insurance companies "Care" about the average policy holder...but the money that it brings them. What a scam health insurance is... I consdider these insurance companies white collard criminals. They serve no real purpose... but to make one feel beholden to their whims. Its truely a shame that our health care has come down to Big money.

Half of my screen is an ad from United Health Group saying they support this reform.

Why do I doubt it?

Its "feeding time" at the zoo. The lobbyists are throwing heaping hands full of "red meat" in the form of money, to the baying, never-ending petite of congresspersons. "We the people" are just so much fodder to be pushed aside, when its "feeding time".

And if these folks had spent the money lowering the price of their products we might not be here today.

When is the White House going to disclose the President's contacts with Tom Daschle, who is an unregistered lobbyist for Alson & Bird, with direct access to the White House?

Secret meetings with Industry Lobbyist to formulate national policy, sounds like the last administration's energy policy, so where's the outcry on MSNBC?

Where's the Ethic investigation Holder?

Wait a minute!! Obama ENDED lobbyist influence, right? It's not like his Chief of Staff is an Investment Banker, or his other aide and Michelle had 300K a year no show jobs at UC Hospital!!!!

Biden would never fail to regulate Credit Cards. Dodd would never fail to reform his financial masters!

The Grandson of a Banker/Lawyer wouldn't focus (at the order of Ambulance Chasing Trial Lawyers) on Big Bad Insurers rather than the folks really making the money.

Obama ended lobbyist influence.

Get your facts straight.

Call it what it is - BRIBERY!!! "You vote the way I want you to and we will donate to your campaign or give you lots of neat things."

Congress - the best government money can buy.

Just because Washington is closer to the firing line than Colorado, that doesn't mean we're immune to what's going on. As a Veteran and a senior citizen, I also feel the pain of a health care industry run amok.

Its simple.

Vote against ANY politician who's vote favors the insurance industry over American citizen's access to low cots medical care, and affordable comprehensive insurance.

Baucus and Grassley are your top two targets for health improvement in America via their removal from our government.

The entire health care industry is flat out criminal. Those lobbyists need to go to prison. In fact, along with stripping this (and every other, especially the credit firms like Equifax) industry of anti-trust protections, we need to outlaw corporate lobbying. Make it a felony. And make white collar crime punishment the same as street crime. When a health care executive denies coverage to someone in dire need of treatment, puts their family through hell, the result being that patient dies, that health care executive is as guilty of murder as any corner grocery market bandit that murders someone while robbing that store. Arrest them, try them, and *execute* them. Where are the prosecutors bringing murder and manslaughter charges against these subhuman vermin?

Their $$$$$$$$$ hasn't worked so far. They would be better off giving free health insurance that is not really insurance if one needs health care. Needing health care is a cause for the termination of your insurance. Please keep burning your money.

If this industry can afford to spend this much to protect its turf, then it can afford to lower premiums, pay more in taxes, or both. Last week, an insurer made the news because it refused coverage to an infant it deemed to big. Today's news mentions an infant refused because it was too small. A few days ago, we read of a woman who donated a kidney, only to find out that her insurance company then dropped her, saying that she now had a "pre-existing condition." Any day now I expect to hear of someone dropped because their being born was considered a pre-existing condition.

Yet at the same time these companies and trade groups manage to have tens of millions of dollars to spend on trying to protect the hundreds of millions they are skimming from the health care "system." It provides a whole new definition for the term "obscene."

With marching orders from Obama and his accomplices, Obama’s operatives and brainwashed lemmings are busy demonizing the insurance companies.

Why are they not demonizing Big Pharma? Because Obama and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly reached an agreement through which Big Pharma will get richer at our expense by helping Obama enslave us with Obamacare.

"The memo... says the White House agreed to oppose any congressional efforts to use the government’s leverage to bargain for lower drug prices or import drugs from Canada — and also agreed not to pursue Medicare rebates or shift some drugs from Medicare Part B to Medicare Part D, which would cost Big Pharma billions in reduced reimbursements.

In other words, Big Pharma will get richer for helping Obama enslave us with Obamacare. http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/08/14/obama-pharma-make-secret-deal/

We may have issues with insurance companies, hospitals and doctors, but that does not mean we want the Obamacare scam. We do NOT WANT SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM!

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Should banks pay back the bailout money before they lobby?

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Some of these comments are amazing. I read the article and then the comment and try to figure out what is the connection. “Strained’ would be generous. “white collard” for example. Collards are actually green. "feeding time" at the zoo is such a bizarre analogy perhaps he was commenting on the Pandas in DC. “Junkies” and “sucking our blood” are over the top. Comments ought to be enlightening not hysterical. It reminds me of the screaming contests at the “town hall” meetings across the country over the last few months. TV loved it as the anger and threatened violence knocked Iraq and Afghanistan right off the prime time news. Good fodder for Jay Leno if it hadn’t been so scary. “Communism and socialism” fears are so ludicrous you wonder if the writer ever graduated from high school. The Pres and Congress are trying to solve a vexing and long standing problem: how to take care of the millions of Americans who are not taking care of themselves. The healthcare crisis has come about because millions of Americans, including young children, are eating too much and exercising too little and getting fat, diabetic and hypertensive. The “public options” that we already have: Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP and the VA system are targeted at specific groups and are all growing to the point of bankrupting the country. Adding another government funded plan only brings that bankruptcy years sooner. Right now there are not enough doctors and nurses to handle the load. That rapidly gets worse as the 76 million baby boomers soon turn 65 and qualify for SS and Medicare. Our only hope is that all of us have to start taking much better care of ourselves. At 75 I do walk the talk. That is why I made it to 75 when all the men in my family died young. If I can do it so can you.