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Skwmom

(12,685 posts)
Thu Apr 14, 2016, 01:25 AM Apr 2016

Paul Song is referring to Congressional Corporate Democrats


Starts at 10:00.

First, he says he has tremendous respect for Secretary Clinton. ..........

Secretary Clinton has said medicare for all will never happen. Well I agree with Secretary Clinton that Medicare for all will never happen if we have a president who never aspires for something greater than the status quo.

Medicare for all will never happen if we continue to elect corporate democratic whore(S) who are beholden to big pharma and the private insurance industry instead of us.

........ voting out every corporatist Democrats and replacing them with Berniecrats...


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Half-Century Man

(5,279 posts)
1. Perhaps Mr Song should have used the phrase "Political Contractors"
Thu Apr 14, 2016, 01:35 AM
Apr 2016

It displays the inherent willingness to do anything, without the implied sweating and grunting.
The logical product of the gig economy.

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
3. Thank you
Thu Apr 14, 2016, 01:49 AM
Apr 2016

I think he should have been clearer. If you are going to stir up some chit bring out a big fan or something something. He said what many people already think. Which is why a certain segment of people are pissed off. They know they are supporting one of the biggest corporate whores in the Democratic Party.

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
7. Maybe he was referring to this?:
Thu Apr 14, 2016, 02:25 AM
Apr 2016
Hillary Clinton’s Single-Payer Pivot Greased By Millions in Industry Speech Fees

Hillary Clinton’s sudden attack on Bernie Sanders’ single-payer health care plan is a dramatic break with Democratic Party doctrine that the problem with single-payer is that it is politically implausible — not that it is a bad idea.

Single-payer, the Canadian-style system in which the government pays for universal health care, takes the health insurance industry out of the picture, saving huge amounts of money. But the health insurance industry has become so rich and powerful that it would never let it happen.

That was certainly Clinton’s position back in the early 1990s, when she was developing her doomed universal coverage proposal for her husband, Bill.

But in the ensuing years, both Clintons have taken millions of dollars in speaking fees from the health care industry. According to public disclosures, Hillary Clinton alone, from 2013 to 2015, made $2,847,000 from 13 paid speeches to the industry.



Source: Public federal disclosures, Clinton campaign

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/13/hillary-clinton-single-payer/


Democratic Debate 2015: Hillary Clinton’s ‘Enemies’ In Pharmaceutical and Insurance Industries Have Supported Her Campaigns, Foundation

In 2008, Clinton was the among the three biggest recipients of campaign cash from pharmaceutical-related companies, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. In all, the watchdog group reports that she raised $738,000 from employees of pharmaceutical manufacturers and companies classified as “Pharmaceuticals /Health Products.” The center reports that Clinton also raised more than $1.2 million from the insurance industry -- which includes health insurers.

On top of those campaign contributions, the Clintons and their family foundation have benefited from their ties to the pharmaceutical and insurance industries.

In 2011, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) -- the primary trade association representing drug companies -- paid Bill Clinton $200,000 for a speech, as the organization was lobbying the Hillary Clinton-led State Department. Last year, the Drug Chemical and Associated Technologies Association, a trade group whose members include major pharmaceutical companies, paid her a $250,000 speaking fee.


Meanwhile, the Clinton Foundation has received between $1 million and $5 million worth of donations separately from drug manufacturers Pfizer and Procter & Gamble, and from health insurers Humana and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina. Some of those companies made donations as recently as this year, according to the foundation’s website.

That largesse was part of a friendship forged after those industries opposed her 1993 health care initiative -- and which continued after she won reelection to the Senate in 2006.

http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/democratic-debate-2015-hillary-clintons-enemies-pharmaceutical-insurance
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