Texas Senators Rake in Contributions From “Health” Industry While Opposing Government Public Health Care Option
Do y’all remember the rallies held to bail out the banks? No? Me neither, but it didn’t take long for the US Congress to bail them out, even when there were public rallies against doing so.
What about the rallies to bail out the pharmaceutical, hospital, and health insurance industries? Wait a minute –there have not been any public rallies for them—just the opposite, public rallies and public surveys supporting government-operated health care. Yet, no legislation has been passed for that, even though many people are struggling with health care expenses and lack of health care.
In the Austin area, only one person representing us in Washington DC, US Representative, Lloyd Doggett, the lone Democrat, supports a government option in health care. The others, all Republicans don’t.
However, all including Representative Doggett have accepted contributions from the health care industry for their political campaigns. US Texas Senators Cornyn and Hutchinson have received the most contributions and appear to be the most vehement against a federal government public option.
The following table shows how much money health professionals donated to each of our local federal representatives and Texas senators since 2005.
*Information compiled from opensecrets.org—Does not include data on contributions from illegal drug activity.
Mr. Cornyn has received the most contributions from the health care industry. He is against a federally legislated public option along with Mrs. Hutchinson, who has announced that she is running for Governor of Texas in 2010.
What about the rallies to bail out the pharmaceutical, hospital, and health insurance industries? Wait a minute –there have not been any public rallies for them—just the opposite, public rallies and public surveys supporting government-operated health care. Yet, no legislation has been passed for that, even though many people are struggling with health care expenses and lack of health care.
In the Austin area, only one person representing us in Washington DC, US Representative, Lloyd Doggett, the lone Democrat, supports a government option in health care. The others, all Republicans don’t.
However, all including Representative Doggett have accepted contributions from the health care industry for their political campaigns. US Texas Senators Cornyn and Hutchinson have received the most contributions and appear to be the most vehement against a federal government public option.
The following table shows how much money health professionals donated to each of our local federal representatives and Texas senators since 2005.
*Information compiled from opensecrets.org—Does not include data on contributions from illegal drug activity.Mr. Cornyn has received the most contributions from the health care industry. He is against a federally legislated public option along with Mrs. Hutchinson, who has announced that she is running for Governor of Texas in 2010.
posted by lmk at
7/13/2009 02:16:00 PM
2 Comments:
Under the Democrats it's all about money and power.
They want power, and they need money to get it.
Certainly given the anti-private sector policies of the Obama administration the return on investing in Senators and Congressmen is far higher than that from honest work.
Any private company that wants to stay in business has to invest in Washington first, and then if anything is left over perhaps they invest in their actual business.
Or just move the business to China, which embraces capitalism more than Obama and the Democrat congress.
Thank you for your comment Jim.
My point in publishing the campaign contributions for the last four-five years, since 2005, is to show that politicians have been receiving money from the drug and health insurance industry for a long time,even under a Republican administration.
Just because there may be a public health insurance option, does not mean that there is no room for competition.
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