A Bird's-Eye View Of Health Overhaul Lobbying
The Center for Public Integrity's new "analysis of Senate lobbying disclosure forms shows that more than 1,750 companies and organizations hired about 4,525 lobbyists — eight for each member of Congress — to influence health reform bills in 2009."
Is this what the democrats call a bipartisan process? The democrats will allow thousands of lobbyists to influence the Health Care Deform bill. But somehow exclude all the republicans.
"Businesses and organizations that lobbied on health reform spent more than $1.2 billion on their overall lobby efforts," the report finds, out of a total of $3.47 billion for all reported lobbying last year. However, the amount spent on health overhaul issues is not reported independent of other issues the same organizations lobbied on. The total number of lobbyists working on health care doubled last year.
The federal government is planning on spending over $1 trillion dollars on their Health Care Deform bill. For a mere 1% of that, or $1.2 billion, the lobbyists are seeing that their money is well spent.
It is too bad we don't live in a democracy where the voice of the people can be heard.
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