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Why Are Hillary's Minions Fighting Single Payer In Colorado? (Original Post) berni_mccoy May 2016 OP
More disgusting crap from the front runner panader0 May 2016 #1
Because they are obeying their corporate masters. RoccoR5955 May 2016 #2
That is NOT Hillary fun n serious May 2016 #3
what the fuck? Joob May 2016 #4
They doggedly work for private interests even when physical and financial harm befalls most. stillwaiting May 2016 #5
That's a good question. Uncle Joe May 2016 #6
B/C they know who butters their bread, B/C they are a-holes, B/C they are Idiots, B/C they do not juxtaposed May 2016 #7
Because a few deaths amongst the peasant class... Lizzie Poppet May 2016 #8
That's the truth of it right there. Hillary the corporatist. berni_mccoy May 2016 #9
Consider this... HumanityExperiment May 2016 #10
The Democratic governor Demsrule86 May 2016 #11
$$$$ demwing May 2016 #12
Follow it and see what they worship = POWER Vincardog May 2016 #14
Hillary's Donors Don't Want It: amborin May 2016 #13
That would not affect any action she might take as pResident. Right? Vincardog May 2016 #16
Hillary's fault again... Jitter65 May 2016 #15
Because letting people hope is bad for her numbers. n/t Jester Messiah May 2016 #17
2 Explanations: Rass May 2016 #18
Her Majesty said we can't have it, so they will make sure of it. GreenPartyVoter May 2016 #19
Because she wants the insurance companies Bettie May 2016 #20
 

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)
2. Because they are obeying their corporate masters.
Wed May 4, 2016, 04:20 PM
May 2016

The medical and pharmaceutical industries. Not to mention the insurance companies. Hell, their corporate masters may not have to hire them as lobbyists when they decide to get out of politics.

What do little people matter any way?

Joob

(1,065 posts)
4. what the fuck?
Wed May 4, 2016, 04:23 PM
May 2016

Oh man, I really want Bernie to win, but I can't stand being in this hypocritical party much longer.

stillwaiting

(3,795 posts)
5. They doggedly work for private interests even when physical and financial harm befalls most.
Wed May 4, 2016, 04:24 PM
May 2016

Neo-liberals.

They've taken over the Democratic Party Establishment.

Change the election and voting system first if we're ever to take it back from them. They're not giving it up any other way.

 

juxtaposed

(2,778 posts)
7. B/C they know who butters their bread, B/C they are a-holes, B/C they are Idiots, B/C they do not
Wed May 4, 2016, 04:30 PM
May 2016

give a Rats Ass about this country or its ppl.

 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
8. Because a few deaths amongst the peasant class...
Wed May 4, 2016, 04:32 PM
May 2016

...are a small price to pay for corporate profitability.

 

HumanityExperiment

(1,442 posts)
10. Consider this...
Wed May 4, 2016, 04:47 PM
May 2016

Sen. Michael Bennet is a superdelegate and HRC supporter... and he's against the single payer initiative

Demsrule86

(70,842 posts)
11. The Democratic governor
Wed May 4, 2016, 04:51 PM
May 2016

The Democratic governor Thinks it will be too costly to start from scratch and wants to improve Obamacare. Single payer at the state level failed in Vermont you know. The governor also fears, insurance companies, doctors and business will leave the state. There is a hefty tax increase involved. I don't know what would be best. I sure would hate to see single payer fail in Colorado and give it a bad name. I believe Obamacare will inevitably lead to single payer. As for you post, you leave out important facts to try to attack Hillary for no good reason.

 

demwing

(16,916 posts)
12. $$$$
Wed May 4, 2016, 05:05 PM
May 2016

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amborin

(16,631 posts)
13. Hillary's Donors Don't Want It:
Wed May 4, 2016, 05:14 PM
May 2016
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511817230


*****Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers $1,083,180 $225,500




Health Care Industry Moves Swiftly to Stop Colorado’s “Single Payer” Ballot Measure

By Lee Fang

Apr. 22 2016, 10:37 a.m.

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/colorad-single-payer/

The campaign in Colorado to create the nation’s first state-based “single payer” health insurance system, providing universal coverage and replacing insurance premiums with higher taxes, has barely begun.

But business interests in Colorado are not taking anything for granted, and many of the largest lobbying groups around the country and in the state are raising funds to defeat Amendment 69, the single-payer ballot question going before voters this November.

The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers, a national trade group, is mobilizing its member companies to defeat single payer in Colorado. “The council urges Coloradans to protect employer-provided insurance and oppose Proposition 69,” the CIAB warns. The group dispatched Steptoe & Johnson, a lobbying firm it retains, to analyze the bill.

Name 2014 Lobbying Spending Clinton Speaking Fee
General Electric $20,085,000 $225,500
Biotechnology Industry Organization $10,186,000 $335,500
Qualcomm Inc $9,530,000 $125,000
Pharmaceutical Care Management Assn $4,284,916 $225,500
National Auto Dealers Assn $3,657,000 $225,500
Cisco Systems $3,450,000 $325,000
Advanced Medical Technology Association $3,392,000 $265,000
Ameriprise Financial $3,390,000 $225,500
Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals $3,008,000 $125
Premier Health Alliance $1,258,696 $225,000

*****Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers $1,083,180 $225,500



http://time.com/3889577/hillary-clinton-paid-speeches-lobbyists-influence/

The Democratic presidential candidate earned $10.2 million in 2014, her first full calendar year after leaving the State Department. Of that, $4.6 million came from groups that also spent on lobbying Congress that year, according to data compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

In all, the corporations and trade groups that Clinton spoke to in 2014 spent $72.5 million lobbying Congress that same year.

Asked Tuesday if there were conflicts of interest in speaking to these groups, Clinton was curt with reporters in Cedar Falls, Iowa. “No,” she said.

“Obviously, Bill and I have been blessed and we’re very grateful for the opportunities that we had but we’ve never forgotten where we’ve come from,” she added.

But the speaking fees were more about where they were going next.



Name 2014 Lobbying Spending Clinton Speaking Fee
General Electric $20,085,000 $225,500
Biotechnology Industry Organization $10,186,000 $335,500
Qualcomm Inc $9,530,000 $125,000
Pharmaceutical Care Management Assn $4,284,916 $225,500
National Auto Dealers Assn $3,657,000 $225,500
Cisco Systems $3,450,000 $325,000
Advanced Medical Technology Association $3,392,000 $265,000
Ameriprise Financial $3,390,000 $225,500
Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals $3,008,000 $125
Premier Health Alliance $1,258,696 $225,000

*****Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers $1,083,180 $225,500

Bettie

(16,849 posts)
20. Because she wants the insurance companies
Wed May 4, 2016, 06:58 PM
May 2016

to keep their cash cow and it is really hard to keep saying "NO WE CAN'T" if a state says "why yes, we can".

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