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On 9/29/2012 8:50 PM, MikeHall@outlook.com wrote:
> As if you had any folks in your audience.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/14-7

 From the Department of You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up, check out 
this little-noticed report from the Billings Gazette today:

Max Baucus and former aide and Wellpoint Exec Liz Fowler

Liz Fowler, a key staffer for U.S. Sen. Max Baucus who helped draft the 
federal health reform bill enacted in March, is joining the Obama 
administration to help implement the new law...

Fowler headed up a team of 20-some Senate Finance Committee staffers who 
helped draft the bill in the Senate. She was Baucus' top health care 
aide from 2001-2005 and left that job in 2006 to become an executive at 
WellPoint, the nation's largest private insurer. She was vice president 
of public policy at WellPoint, helping develop public-policy positions 
for the company. In 2008, she rejoined Baucus to work on health reform 
legislation.



For some good background on Fowler and the insidious role she played in 
killing the public option, watch Bill Moyers' recent segment here.

Clearly, this is a telling indictment of the health care law itself, 
strongly suggesting that it was constructed by the Obama administration 
- as some progressives argued - as a massive taxpayer-financed giveaway 
to private insurers like Wellpoint. And let's be honest: In investment 
terms, Fowler has been a jackpot for the health industry. The industry 
maximized her public policy experience for their own uses when they 
plucked her out of the Senate. Then, having lined her pockets, they 
deposited her first into a key Senate committee to write the new health 
care law that they will operate under, and now into the administration 
that will implement said law. Any bets on how much Fowler will make when 
Wellpoint (or another health insurer) inevitably rehires her in a few years?

This story is also a telling indictment of the Washington media. You'll 
notice that the Obama administration's move was reported by the Billings 
Gazette, but (save for a blog entry on the Hill's website, one 
context-free line at the bottom of the Washington Post's gossip column, 
and a blurb in Congressional Quarterly's HealthBeat newsletter) was 
almost completely ignored by national Washington-based publications. 
That's not because D.C. reporters didn't know it was happening - more 
likely, it is because the political press corps in the nation's capital 
no longer sees this kind of revolving door corruption as even mildly 
problematic, much less newsworthy. That's how pervasive corruption is 
these days - ubiquitous to the point of invisible in the eyes of most of 
the so-called watchdogs.
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