ObamaCare’s architects reaping windfalls as Washington lobbyists
Veterans of the healthcare push are now lobbying for corporate giants such as Delta Airlines, UPS, BP America and Coca-Cola, and for healthcare companies including GlaxoSmithKline, UnitedHealth Group and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.
Ultimately, the clients are after one thing: expert help in dealing with the most sweeping overhaul of the country’s healthcare system in decades.
“Healthcare lobbying on K Street is as strong as it ever was, and it’s due to the fact that the Affordable Care Act seems to be ever-changing,” Adler said. “What’s at stake is huge. … Whenever there’s a lot of money at stake, there’s a lot of lobbying going on.”
The voracious need for lobbying help in dealing with ObamaCare has created a price premium for lobbyists who had first-hand experience in crafting or debating the law.









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This is the most corrupt administration ever and the leftys still haven’t figured it out.
Blake on August 25, 2013 at 7:27 PM
Unfortunately, this is why Term Limits won’t work.
The systemic corruption vis-a-vis big-monied electoral interests, lobbyists, crony capitalism, etc. remain in place regardless of the generally emasculated next whore elected.
Refer to one Mr. Jefferson and something to do with a tree for the only possible resolution …
ShainS on August 25, 2013 at 7:31 PM
We need to pass the bill to reap the windfall.
Flange on August 25, 2013 at 7:32 PM
The best things in life are free
But you can tell me ’bout the birds and bees.
Now gimme money (that’s what I want)
That’s what I want (that’s what I want)
That’s what I want, ye-ye-yeh,
That’s what I want.
Paul-Cincy on August 25, 2013 at 7:41 PM
Government of, by and for the cronies; tyranny for the rest of us.
FloatingRock on August 25, 2013 at 7:43 PM
Makes me want to vomit!
AUINSC on August 25, 2013 at 7:58 PM
Hope and Change!
WisCon on August 25, 2013 at 8:23 PM
The media will expose these shiteheads. Oh, wait….
BuckeyeSam on August 25, 2013 at 8:32 PM