When the health care industry is writing checks to our senators

[TwixVoy]

in the amount of fucking MILLIONS OF DOLLARS and the check fucking says "PAY TO THE ORDER OF JOE LIEBERMAN" or "JOHN MCCAIN" or ANY of the people elected to serve US that is the problem people.

I think we are not looking at the big picture here. Is this health care bill a problem? Hell yes. But you know what is a bigger problem? Take a look:

Health Sector Contributions to Members of the 111th Congress, 1989-2009*
Name Office State Health Sector** Health Insurance Pharma Health Pros Hospitals Nursing Homes
Obama, Barack P IL $20,144,316 $1,552,981 $2,132,573 $12,108,983 $2,881,638 $244,190
McCain, John S AZ $9,027,044 $736,884 $902,915 $6,325,601 $658,250 $152,950
Kerry, John S MA $8,344,060 $687,434 $887,043 $4,717,648 $1,306,997 $169,190
Specter, Arlen S PA $4,521,093 $382,228 $1,238,916 $1,738,490 $795,928 $92,100
Baucus, Max S MT $3,902,881 $675,349 $1,099,605 $1,401,776 $421,542 $232,949


Are you telling me the health care industry can write a multi-million dollar check to one of our senators and that senator NOT be bought out? Who the fuck are we kidding here?

If you got a check in the mail from United Health Care in the amount of $8,000,000 are you telling me that wouldn't influence you just a tad?

You know what the real sick part is? The mega insurance companies deny paying for a 5 year olds life saving treatment, but they can sure as hell send out the personal checks to congress can't they?

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Who unrecs this? Honestly!

[leftstreet]

2. LOL when we get the inevitable Single Payer those asshats should pay it back

Maybe the Insurance companies can sue for it

:rofl:

[Goldstein1984]

3. I think we should turn the Capitol into a big museum

And just more Congress to Wall Street.

And the Whitehouse would make a great hotel. I've heard people already pay good money to sleep there.

[texanshatingbush]

4. Could you please add to your list the amts for Lieberman & Nelson? n/t