During his presidential campaign, President Obama repeatedly promised transparency throughout the upcoming health care debate. He stated that previous attempts at reform failed because Democrats and Republicans failed to come together and reform health care and further stated:
That’s what I will do in bringing all parties together, not negotiating behind closed doors, but bringing all parties together, and broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are.
Then he broke that promise by having closed-door meetings with pharmaceutical companies. In those closed-door meetings, which were not aired on C-Span, the Obama administration cut a deal with the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers Association (PhRMA). In exchange for the White House opposing any attempts at lowering drug prices or importing drugs from Canada, PhRMA agreed to cut ‘up to $80B in costs to taxpayers.’
Now we learn that closed-door meetings between the Obama administration and various lobby groups for physicians produced the equivalent of a $247B payoff for their support of Obamacare.
It’s time to recognize that Obama is not the Obamessiah, but just another corruptible politician that must be treated with skepticism.
Health care reform isn’t what’s needed at this point. Government reform is what’s needed. Lobbyists have become too powerful and politicians too corrupt. True health care reform is unobtainable in the current state of the U.S. government.
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