Corruption at the core of Obamacare?

Saying this couldn’t come at a worse time is an understatement.

The depth and utter frankness of the corruption detailed below should be mindnumbing. Obama himself must address this issue directly.

The Democrat Congress and Senate, who passed Obamacare for Obama, must join the adminstration to come clean with other corruption or horrors embedded within Frank-Dodd, new EPA regulations, NLRB-union boss deals, etc…

One of PhRMA’s top goals was to prevent the new health care law from legalizing the reimportation of prescription drugs. It got its wish after making a secret deal with the White House, the progress of which is detailed in the newly released documents. Nancy DeParle, then-director of the White House Office of Health Reform, wrote to PhRMA’s chief lobbyist on June 3, 2009: “Yes — I pushed this to everyone (Messina, Rahm) is in Egypt with POTUS but Phil Schrillo, Dana Singlser and I made [the] decision, based on how constructive you guys have been, to oppose importation on this bill.

Source: WashingtonExaminer and plenty of other media outlets


At the time, Rahm Emanuel was White House chief of staff, Jim Messina was deputy chief of staff, Phil Schrillo was Obama’s legislative affairs director and Dana Singlser was his special assistant to the president for legislative affairs.

As part of the final deal, PhRMA agreed to support health care legislation, spend millions on ads promoting it, and concede $80 billion in savings and taxes to help finance the bill. In exchange, PhRMA not only ended up with a law that promised to provide it with millions of new customers, but protected it against policies contemplated by Democrats that would have been harmful to their profits. In addition to preventing drug reimportation, the White House also blocked the government from negotiating lower drug prices in the Medicare prescription drug program — precisely what Obama had faulted Tauzin for doing from his perch in Congress.

That September, top PhRMA lobbyist Bryant Hall reported in an email that he “had a good call w [with] Messina” and wrote: “Confidential: WH is working on some very explicit language on importation to kill it in health care reform. This has to stay quiet.”



Drug reimportation never made it into the final legislation.

Source: WashingtonExaminer and plenty of other media outlets


Full story: Corruption at the core of Obamacare?

11 Community Comments, Facebook Comments

  1. rocco says:

    You’ll never get any reaction but scorn and ridicule going forward.

    You earned it.

       

  2. DavidThi808DavidThi808 says:

    If you had written a bit more yourself and it wasn’t just cut & paste quotes it would be a good one on a very appropriate subject.

    Unfortunately, you have said so many vile and ridiculous things, you have pretty much killed any credibility.

  3. ProgressiveCowgirlProgressiveCowgirl says:

    Is there any reason you didn’t use one to cite your sources here? From the Wiki entry for your only named source:

    When Anschutz started the Examiner in its current format, he envisioned creating a conservative competitor to The Washington Post. According to Politico, “When it came to the editorial page, Anschutz’s instructions were explicit – he ‘wanted nothing but conservative columns and conservative op-ed writers,’ said one former employee.” The Examiner’s conservative writers include Byron York (National Review), Michael Barone (American Enterprise Institute, Fox News), and David Freddoso (National Review, author of The Case Against Barack Obama). [10]

    The paper endorsed John McCain in the 2008 presidential election[11] and Adrian Fenty in the Democratic primary for mayor in 2010.[12] On December 14, 2011, it endorsed Mitt Romney for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, saying he was the only Republican who could beat Barack Obama in the general election.[13]

    Hmm. Paper with explicit mission of getting rid of Obama claims corruption in Obama administration. Shocking.

  4. raymond1 says:

    … making it a waste to try to engage in substantive discussion with Our Favorite Klansman.

  5. Fidel's dirt nap says:

    but I guess it all depends on the roll Mitt Romney will play.

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