Hillary's Best Bundlers Lobby for Big Pharma & Anti-Obamacare Measures

[amborin]

Hillary’s Best Bundlers Lobby For Big Pharma, Private Prisons, And Anti-Obamacare

Health http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/01/hillarys-best-bundlers-lobby-for-big-pharma-private-prisons-and-anti-obamacare-health-insurers/

[blockquoteTwo of Hillary Clinton’s biggest campaign bundlers are Washington D.C. lobbyists who represent a who’s who of companies that the Democratic presidential candidate publicly claims to despise.

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both lobbyists represent companies and trade groups in the pharmaceutical industry, health insurance field, oil exploration business and private prison industry — all fields that Clinton has criticized throughout her campaign. ...

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Sullivan has lobbied for Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), a giant trade group that represents dozens of drug manufacturers. The group has paid Capitol Counsel $60,000 per quarter for years to lobby Congress on “legislative issues related to access to pharmaceuticals, including Medicare Part D, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).”

It’s safe to say that PhRMA is interested in squeezing out as much profit from those programs as it possibly can, undermining Clinton’s stated desire to control costs in those programs. The irony is that Clinton routinely brags about creating CHIP, which is administered in individual states to provide health care to children.

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Sullivan and Jones have also lobbied for Cardinal Health, a pharmaceutical and medical devices manufacturer. The company pays a lucrative $110,000 quarterly stipend to lobby on a host of issues, including on the repeal of Obamacare’s excise tax on medical devices. While Clinton has said she supports Obamacare and wants to expand it, she has declined to lay out her position on the 2.3 percent medical devices tax, saying in 2014 that the “pluses and minuses” had to be weighed

[onecaliberal]

1. Will someone ask her about this at the debate. I won't hold my breath.

[Go Vols]

3. Maybe Rachel will would be only hope.

[amborin]

2. whereas Bernie

called on the White House to take executive action against certain tax breaks. Among them is a real estate loophole that allows business like private prisons to avoid corporate income taxes by claiming that they make money from rents. He has also voted in favor of investing in alternative sentencing as opposed to building more prisons.

http://www.attn.com/stories/1092/2016-candidates-private-prisons


Plus, while Hillary was FLOTUS:

The private prison industry expanded and...

a 1994 Annual Women in Policing address, when she declared that “we need more police, we need more and tougher prison sentences for repeat offenders…we need more prisons to keep violent offenders for as long as it takes to keep them off the streets.”

[EdwardBernays]

4. That's nothing.

Her campaign chairman owns one of the biggest lobbying firms in DC with his brother, who is one of the few Super Lobbyists.

Their firm represents the weapons manufacturing industry, big pharma and Saudi Arabia... He is also one of Hillary's biggest bundlers... While his brother runs her campaign.

And of course the Clintons took endless money for their foundation... And from speaking fees.

It's just wildly corrupt.

Read this as well:

http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187

No progressive can really support that sort of behaviour and those sorts of moral compromises.