Lobbyists Paying to Write Health Care Their Way

Dear President Obama,
The Senate Finance Committee has secured their personal fortunes and sold out the American public. Trying to get bi- partisan support from Corpracrats is futile and unwise. The following no longer represent the people only the Corporations that have bought them off. This way of conducting the people’s business needs to change.
There are 100 members of the Senate, but these six, inexplicably, seem to be holding all the cards when it comes to health care.

So you probably won't be surprised to learn that all six have taken a huge amount of money from the health insurance industry and Big Pharma.* The following Senators should be shunned and charges brought against them:
Senator and Lifetime contributions from Insurance/Pharma
Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT)
$1,203,205 (I heard $3.4 million.-tmg)
Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
$206,297
Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND)
$442,165
Sen. Mike Enzi (R-NV)
$342,228
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
$702,595
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
$161,706
TOTAL:
$3,058,256

These six senators — who, by the way, represent only 2.74% of Americans — are writing bad policy, and they're doing it while they take money from the very companies who stand to benefit the most.
I read HR3200’s Public Option and it must stay in. $23 million to an Insurance executive could cover a lot of people with excellent care. “Free Market” Profiteering does not belong in what should be not-for-profit care giving.
If I had surrendered to Group Health denying me surgery that saved my life in 1977 I would have been dead three decades ago and a lot of people would be worst off for my not doing what I have with my life. If I had not taken desperate measures to live I would be a US Senator today or at the least working in the Senate.
Sincerely outraged at Profiteers,
Theresa Marie K. Gandhi
July 30, 2009