Tag: Health Care Lobbyists
Health Insurance Lobby Astroturfs Facebook Games
Millions of Facebook users spend their time as digital farmers, pirates or wise guys and the health insurance lobby has found a way to use these games to further their political agenda. . . . Get Health Reform Right, are paying Facebook users “virtual currency” – which is useful in Facebook games like “FarmVille,” “Mafia […]
Tom Carper’s Chief of Staff Now Lobbies for Wellpoint
You read that right — the nation’s largest insurer has hired Tom Carper’s ex-Chief of Staff as a lobbyist to campaign for their interests on the health care bill:
Where Did You Hear That Before?
Lobbyists ghostwrote a few, no, several, no, many speeches that uttered during the historic health care debate last week reports The New York Times. Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies. E-mail messages obtained by […]
Lieberman Literally In Bed With Drug/Insurance Lobby
Geez, you’d think that the Main Stream Media might have discovered that Pious Joe’s equally-pious wife has returned to her roots–as a lobbyist for the pharmaceutical and health care industries with conservative lobbying shop Hill & Knowlton, which also numbers AIG among its clients. She had previously worked for APCO Associates, a lobbying shop that […]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-Sept. 20 Edition
LEAD STORY: McClatchy Papers: Anti-Government Protests Racism By Another Name Of course it is, and it has been since the beginning of the Obama Administration, but the ‘respectable’ media has failed to tell the story. Until now: At about the same time (Nov. 5 after Obama had been declared the winner), newspaper Web sites were […]
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