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Nov 18, 2009
The American Medical Association (AMA): A promise to repeal a scheduled 21 percent cut in physician’s Medicare reimbursements under the current law.
AARP: As many as 8.5 million seniors will lose their Medicare Advantage coverage and be forced to buy Medigap insurance instead. AARP (which has morphed into an insurance company) is one of the main sellers of Medigap.
The drug industry: A 10-year limit of $80 billion in cuts in prescription drug costs and administration assurances that it will continue to bar lower-cost Canadian drugs from coming into the U.S.
Insurance companies: Access to 40 million potential new customers.
Full article in The Hill’s Pundits Blog.
6 Responses to “What Special Interests are Getting for Selling Out on Health Reform”
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Helium
November 18th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Sounds a lot like the proverbial “two wolves and a sheep” voting on what to have for dinner.
November 18th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
What are they getting for selling out? They’re getting theirs.
November 18th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
All the stakeholders believe they can bargain their way out of their ox getting gored. I suspect they will all discover they’re wrong.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
This reads like something out of Atlas Shrugged. Where is John Galt when we need him?
November 18th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Why isn’t selling out your membership fraud? And if it is fraud, why isn’t it criminal fraud?
November 18th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Who is John Galt?