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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (9626)9/18/2009 5:46:46 PM
From: Road Walker1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
As for huge numbers of lobbyists trying to influence the government, well spend three and a half trillion a year, start bailing out more and more companies, have a "compensation czar" etc. and you provide a lot of incentive for corporations and others to spend their money and efforts to try to influence policy. Big, active government means the most profitable investment is often an investment in lobbying the government.

For someone like me, who believes there should be a thick firewall between industry and government, your words ring true. I've been complaining about industry writing the bills regulating their own industries for many years.

Now I find myself in the awkward position of having the major industries in the medical reform issues supporting the bills. You may have the same conundrum from the other side. Still rolling this thing around in my mind. Not sure I support the bills as proposed.

I'm fence sitting right now.
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