How do you reconcile what Obama said during the campaign re: health care with his approach now?As part of his stump speech, Obama would often describe his vision for the process behind health care reform.
At a campaign stop in Virginia last summer, he said: "We'll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies -- they'll get a seat at the table, they just won't be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies."
Now, though, none of the White House negotiations are open for public consumption. And the Obama administration has rejected a request from a watchdog group to disclose the health care industry executives who have come to the White House to discuss the issue. The group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, is poised to sue Obama's administration to obtain the records.
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Exposure to a greater wealth of knowledge due to his new position as Head of State.
Posted by Inconvenienttruth
I feel sorry for the idiots who actually believed in this, and the 5 day period for reviewing bills, and no lobbyists or insiders in the white house.
I know a few who will never vote for him again.
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