Why Are Hillary's Minions Fighting Single Payer In Colorado?

[berni_mccoy]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027800826

This is fucked up.

[panader0]

1. More disgusting crap from the front runner

Anthem might lose money!

[RoccoR5955]

2. Because they are obeying their corporate masters.

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?

[fun n serious]

3. That is NOT Hillary

It is a NEVERBERNIE pac.

[Joob]

4. what the fuck?

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

[stillwaiting]

5. They doggedly work for private interests even when physical and financial harm befalls most.

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.

[Uncle Joe]

6. That's a good question.

Thanks for the thread, berni_mccoy.

[juxtaposed]

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

give a Rats Ass about this country or its ppl.

[Lizzie Poppet]

8. Because a few deaths amongst the peasant class...

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

[berni_mccoy]

9. That's the truth of it right there. Hillary the corporatist.

[HumanityExperiment]

10. Consider this...

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

[Demsrule86]

11. The Democratic governor

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]

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[Vincardog]

14. Follow it and see what they worship = POWER

[amborin]

13. Hillary's Donors Don't Want It:

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

[Vincardog]

16. That would not affect any action she might take as pResident. Right?

[Jitter65]

15. Hillary's fault again...

[Jester Messiah]

17. Because letting people hope is bad for her numbers. n/t

[Rass]

18. 2 Explanations:

1.)


2.) Must assimilate, assimilate assimilate!!

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. Her Majesty said we can't have it, so they will make sure of it.

[Bettie]

20. Because she wants the insurance companies

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".