Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet. November 26, 2009. The White House released records cataloguing 575 visits by health care industry heavyweights since Jan. 20. The ties run deep.
AlterNetNovember 11, 2009. "How will the corporations save themselves from that onerous rule that you can‘t use slaves and prisoners and children to make your products"?
Christopher Hayes, TheNation.com AlterNet: PEEK. July 6, 2009. Shouldn't there be repercussions for 'those powerful few' who allowed access to them to be sold?
Karen Dolan, Institute for Policy Studies. June 29, 2009. Single-payer and public option advocates are fighting each other. We must remember that we're on the same side.
Joe Conason, Truthdig. June 27, 2009. Whenever Democratic politicians are confronted with this conflict between the public interest and their private fund-raising, they choose the latter.
Dean Baker, AlterNet. June 23, 2009. The health care industry is getting money out of our pockets because their friends in Congress have made sure the money flows from us to them.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. June 23, 2009. Even in special-interest-dominated Washington, it's rare for politicians to so blatantly privilege a private industry over the will of the people.
Hunter, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. June 18, 2009. 76% of Americans want a "public option." That's a mandate, and our lawmakers should start listening to them rather than health insurance lobbyists.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. June 18, 2009. Lobbyists sense that their chances of protecting big insurers, drug companies, medical specialties, technology companies are improving.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, Huffington Post. June 9, 2009. Six times as many Americans die every from lack of health care than the number of Americans killed in 9/11.
Jacob S. Hacker, Campaign for America's Future. May 29, 2009. A well-designed public health insurance option is vital for driving down costs and provided a guaranteed coverage for all Americans.
Bill Moyers, Michael Winship, AlterNet. May 24, 2009. The health care industry has spent $134 million on lobbying this year to keep its profits high and public health in the shadows.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. May 21, 2009. Millions of dollars will be poured into deceptive media ads by the health care industry -- will you step up to stop them?
John Nichols, The Nation. May 14, 2009. While the health-insurance lobby has been welcomed to the roundtable discussions organized by Baucus, the nurses and their allies were told to leave.
