Top Hillary Clinton Advisors & Fundraisers Lobbied AGAINST Obamacare & Dodd Frank

[amborin]

Top Hillary Clinton Advisers and Fundraisers Lobbied Against Obamacare and Dodd-Frank

Hillary Clinton is campaigning as a guardian of President Barack Obama’s progressive policy accomplishments. In recent weeks, she has called the Affordable Care Act “one of the greatest accomplishments of President Obama, of the Democratic Party, and of our country,” and promised that she is “going to defend Dodd-Frank” and “defend President Obama for taking on Wall Street.”

Meanwhile, however, Clinton’s campaign has been relying on a team of strategists and fundraisers, many of whom spent much of the last seven years as consultants or lobbyists for business interests working to obstruct Obama’s agenda in those two areas.

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Dewey, for instance, worked on behalf of the health insurance industry during the health reform debate, specifically to block the changes to Medicare Advantage that were critical for financing the Affordable Care Act. Medicare Advantage, which allows Medicare beneficiaries to use plans administered by private insurers, had long served as a cash cow for the health insurance industry. By one estimate, insurance companies over-billed the government by nearly $70 billion in improper payments over just a five year period.

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In 2009, Dewey was also retained by the National Restaurant Association, which at the time was lobbying aggressively to block health reform rules to require employers to provide health coverage to their employees. The National Restaurant Association, derided by labor activists as “the other NRA” for its role in lobbying against efforts to raise the minimum wage, paid Dewey $772,110 that year. Charles Baker, the Dewey co-founder who now serves as a senior strategist to the Clinton campaign....

....Other lobbyists now closely associated with the Clinton campaign were active in the fight against Obama’s health reforms.

Heather Podesta is one of the most prolific fundraisers for the Clinton campaign, having personally raised at least $348,581, according to recently filed disclosures. In 2009 and 2010, Podesta worked as lobbyist for the health insurance company Cigna. While working for Cigna to influence the health reform bill, Cigna was one of several large health insurers to secretly provide over $86 million in secret payments used to air negative television and radio advertisements to defeat the law.....

more at the link:

https://theintercept.com/2016/02/08/hrc-inner-circle-lobbyists/

[kgnu_fan]

1. K&R

[Hoyt]

2. Yet she supports both. That's what matters.

[amborin]

6. this is why she did a flip flop on Medicare for all:

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/13/hillary-clinton-single-payer/

[Hoyt]

7. Most, if not all, of those groups would do quite well under Medicare for All.

[AzDar]

11. No. She SAYS she does...

[Perogie]

3. Stuff like this I can't understand

HRC continues to have people around her that have fought against progressive policies. There's a long list of them.

How can anyone believe she truly supports what she says when she solicits people that fight against the things she supports.

There's an old saying about that.......and a song

[MisterP]

9. she can do these things because her backers don't care

"casuals"--the vast majority of her supporters--are those who don't know Sanders is running, and running for the win instead of just to "ginger" the party into a few leftish compromises and verbiage

[arcane1]

4. And they would MUCH prefer losing to a republican than winning with a democratic socialist n/t

[yourout]

5. +1.....there is really only one candidate that they fear......Bernie.

Everyone else is already on the payroll.

[cosmicone]

8. Meh ... old news recycled n/t

[AzDar]

10. She's a fraud. Plain and simple.