Insurance industry-funded group paying Obama/Clinton-linked consultants to try to kill single-payer initiative in CO

Submitted by vl baker on Wed, 05/04/2016 - 7:47am

Insurance industry-funded group paying Obama/Clinton-linked consultants to try to kill single-payer initiative in CO

https://t.co/koI86jxWS5— David Sirota (@davidsirota) May 3, 2016

Lee Fang at the Intercept gives us the unsurprising news that Hillary is actively fighting against single payer health. Now you know why Hillary keeps saying that Bernie's single-payer health plan is a pipe dream.

Hillary is the main recipient of Big Pharma funding in the 2016 campaign. Does she think there is really no way to tract her quid pro quo?

INFLUENTIAL DEMOCRATIC CONSULTANTS, some of whom work for the Super PACs backing Hillary Clinton, have signed up to fight a bold initiative to create a state-based single-payer system in Colorado, according to a state filing posted Monday.

Coloradans for Coloradans, an ad-hoc group opposing single payer in Colorado, revealed that it raised $1 million over the first five months of this year. The group was formed to defeat Amendment 69, the ballot measure before voters this year that would change the Colorado constitution and permit a system that would automatically cover every state resident’s health care.

The anti-single-payer effort is funded almost entirely by health care industry interests, including $500,000 from Anthem Inc., the state’s largest health insurance provider; $40,000 from Cigna, another large health insurer that is current in talks to merge with Anthem; $75,000 from Davita, the dialysis company; $25,000 from Delta Dental, the largest dental insurer in the state; and $100,000 from SCL Health, the faith-based hospital chain.

Tags:

Hillary Clinton

Barack Obama

Big Pharma

Single Payer health

Vote

Comments

Submitted by JuliaW on Wed, 05/04/2016 - 8:26am

Guarantee that Celinda Lake is fighting like hell

for the immoral, evil, bloodsucking corporations. Here's a list of the main opponents of single payer (from 2009, but the players are the same):
"Health Care for American Now.

The largest coalition of liberal groups promoting a choice between a public plan and private insurance companies. “They are saying – we can’t do single payer because Americans don’t want it,” said Kip Sullivan of the Minnesota chapter of PNHP. “That’s based on junk research conducted by Celinda Lake for the Herndon Alliance. It is bad enough to say we can’t do single payer because the insurance industry is too powerful to beat. But it is just plain insidious to say we can’t do single payer because the American people don’t want it. In fact, polling data indicates that two-thirds of Americans support a single payer system. And that level of support exists despite the fact that there is little public discussion about it.”"
http://www.counterpunch.org/2009/04/16/the-top-10-enemies-of-single-payer/

Submitted by MsGrin on Wed, 05/04/2016 - 8:29am

Wait - wasn't PNHP FOR single payer previously? n/t

—

'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

Submitted by JuliaW on Wed, 05/04/2016 - 8:53am

PNHP has been the driving force for Single Payer for DECADES

I don't get where you think they aren't/weren't from that article?

edit to say:
Kip is saying HCAN is the enemy

Submitted by dkmich on Wed, 05/04/2016 - 8:42am

Ideally, Bernie will win.

Second best, Hillary must lose. We just have to kill off the neoliberals running the Democratic Party.

#NeverHillary #BernieOrBust #DropoutHillary #TrumpIsBetter #Donate #NoWayInHill

—

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

Submitted by Lookout on Wed, 05/04/2016 - 8:45am

We can't have single payer

Hillary's funders won't allow it! Hope this info gets into the main stream. Lee Fang and the Intercept are doing some great work. Thankfully there are some investigative journalists still working.

single payer.jpg

—

“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Submitted by Ruscle on Wed, 05/04/2016 - 9:12am

This story exemplifies

This story exemplifies everything wrong with the Democratic Party. They claim they are working for the people, but the reality is that they are working behind the scenes for their large corporate donors.
And that is exactly the same thing that is wrong with Hillary.

—

Another Refugee from the Great Orange Purity Troll

Submitted by Hawkfish on Wed, 05/04/2016 - 9:13am