Over the weekend, the Associated Press broke the news that the drug industry plans to support Obama’s health care proposal. Despite the nasty adjectives the White House has used to describe them in recent months, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) will run TV ads in favor of “Obamacare” that will cost at least …
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Who is framing the “Cadillac-plan” debate?
If you’ve turned on the TV this morning you know the networks can’t stop talking about “gold-plated Cadillac plans,” insurance coverage that costs upwards of $10,000 more than the national average. Senator Kerry has proposed taxing the insurance companies that offer them in order to raise money for universal health coverage. The New York Times …
More health care lobbyists with congressional ties unearthed, search now expanded
A few weeks ago, we set out to build a list of congressional-staffers-turned-health care lobbyists. With the help of some incredible citizen journalists at the Huffington Post Investigative Unit, our list of lobbyists has grown exponentially this week. Here are a few trends we’ve found thus far. Where they work Three lobbying firms have acquired …
Eyes on AHIP
Two weeks ago we started taking a closer look at America’s Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP. Since the organization’s website had no staff listing, we asked a simple question: who works for AHIP? There’s still plenty of work to be done in filling out the profiles of the movers and shakers at the insurance industry …
Who works for AHIP?
The healthcare reform fight is heating up on Capitol Hill, pitting the health insurance industry, big pharma, the docs, the hospitals, the medical tech industry, and the biotech industry against…well, I’m not exactly sure. A very scary coalition of uninsured people, the middle class, unions, and liberal think tanks? Perhaps the lines are not so …