New Media Talking points! OMG! OBama met with Medical Industry as early as February!

[FrenchieCat]

:scared:

Here's the story, which is in every paper!

Obama was meeting with health execs in February
By SHARON THEIMER (AP) – 6 hours ago

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's administration began holding private meetings with health industry executives at the White House a few weeks after he took office, a visitor list released Wednesday night by the White House shows. Lobbyists were among those there to talk health care.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j904hBjTq0B-AklYcG2sbK0d76dQD99JS9GG0


The only problem with this story is that everyone already knew that those folks on the "list" had been to the White House for meetings. They weren't "secret".

What's up with this? why now?
Is the media trying to repeat 1993...even if it doesn't fit?

Or are we supposed to get all "Knee jerk" about this or what?
Cause is sure seems like it! :shrug:

White House Healthcare Summit: Obama Calls on All Sectors to Cut Costs
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John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, March 5, 2009

About 150 people from the across the healthcare spectrum, as well as labor and business leaders, and Congressional Republicans and Democrats were called to the half-day summit.
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American Hospital Association President Richard J. Umbdenstock, who attended today's summit, said he told President Obama at last week's fiscal responsibility summit that the nation's hospitals will answer his call for "shared responsibility" as long as everybody else does too.

"We believe we have to be part of the solution, but so do vendors, suppliers, other providers, employers, and consumers themselves. It's not going to be solved by one approach or putting it on the shoulders of any one stakeholder," Umbdenstock told HealthLeaders Media.
http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/229280/topic/WS_HLM2_LED/White-House-Healthcare-Summit-Obama-Calls-on-All-Sectors-to-Cut-Costs.html

VP Biden and Umbdenstock
Vice President Joe Biden speaks about a White House deal with hospitals to help pay for President Barack Obama's overhaul of health care, Wednesday, July 8, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. At right is Rich Umbdenstock, President of the American Hospital Association.





By AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. Posted March 5, 2009.

"This is a great start," said W.J. "Billy" Tauzin, a former House member from Louisiana who now runs the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), referring to Obama's health-care plan. "There are things we don't like about it. But there's time to discuss all that."

Obama's opening gambit to dramatically expand the health-care system has attracted surprising notes of support from insurers, hospitals and other players in the powerful medical lobby who are set to participate in an unusual White House summit on the issue this afternoon. The lure for the industry is the prospect of tens of millions of new customers: If Obama succeeds in fulfilling his pledge to cover many more Americans, those newly insured people will get checkups, purchase medicine, undergo physical therapy and get surgeries they cannot afford today.
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/130315/'disease_care'_industry_likes_obama's_approach_to_health_reform/

[FrenchieCat]

1. Press release from the WH at the time that the "secret" meetings took place!

(Guess the media thinks we are a bunch of imbeciles!)


For Immediate Release
May 11, 2009

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
ON REFORMING THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
TO REDUCE COSTS

State Dining Room

12:35 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everyone. All right. Well, I just concluded a extraordinarily productive meeting with organizations and associations that are going to be essential to the work of health care reform in this country -- groups that represent everyone from union members to insurance companies, from doctors and hospitals to pharmaceutical companies. It was a meeting that focused largely on one of the central challenges that we must confront as we seek to achieve comprehensive reform and lay a new foundation for our economy -- and that is, the spiraling cost of health care in this country.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-on-Reforming-the-Health-Care-System-to-Reduce-Costs/

[zbdent]

3. so ... where's the list of people Cheney met with in February 2001?

you know, those who helped him get his war on in Iraq, and reaped the reward$$$$$$?

[FrenchieCat]

4. We are still asking for it.

Didn't it go to the Supreme Court or something ridiculous like that?

But in the AP story, they directly said that Obama was continuing Bush policies....
and then stated that one of those he met with had donated $500 to his campaign!

We are supposed to be outraged and scared all at the same time, I guess.

I just wrote like 30 letters asking these folks if they think we are morons.


Here's the letter.... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8544799

I sent it to AP editors as well. I'm sick of this shit.

[zbdent]

5. "Supreme Court or something ridiculous like that" ... don't be silly ...

the pages concerning "Rule of Law" were not printed in the Repuke dictionaries 12/12/2000-1/20/2009 ...

[FrenchieCat]

6. Well, what do you know......

Supreme Court to review Cheney meetings
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3719868/


June 24, 2004 by the Associated Press
High Court Sides with Cheney on Energy Papers
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0624-02.htm


and we are supposed to be "outraged" now, along with the Associated Press! :eyes:

Bunch of shit!

[FrenchieCat]

2. So we are supposed to believe that all of these promises for cuts

in healthcare cost that the President got from the various Industries happened without any meetings. That somehow, the fact that this list was released now means that Obama is just like Bush, who never released shit!

And mind you, this is the way that they are going to undermind health care reform. If they can get us to feel betrayed and not trust this President, that's all that will be required.

Oh, and.....lookit! Jay Gellert of Health Net Inc. was a $500 donor to Obama's presidential campaign....and he met with the President!

The Horror! :wow: according to the Associated Press! :eyes:

I'm so fucking sick of this manipulation by this media, who knew most of this information for quite some time!

I mean, Obama had a Health Care Summit like shortly after he was inaugurated. Was he not supposed to ever talk to these folks, that he ended talking to? What is this?

[Avalux]

7. Obama can't get anything done without them. Nothing wrong with this.

In fact, it shows me he's been working on this for a long time; doing his homework and bringing all players to the table, whether they're 'good' players or not.

Something as huge as health insurance reform (Obama's words) would never happen unless the insurance and pharma industries are involved.

Dumb for anyone to feign outrage over this.

[emulatorloo]

8. This attempt to stir up "Outrage" by the AP etc is absurd. All sentient beings were

aware of the Feb meetings. I remember them, I remember photo ops. etc/