Companies with ties to Obama will profit from healthcare reform

  While he was a candidate Barack Obama promised to end politics as usual, he promised change, he promised to end the culture in Washington. But this was more than just a promise, this is what he based his whole campaign on. He swore that he would be the one to reform Washington.

  48% of Americans knew that this was bullshit but unfortunately 52% bought into it. I don’t blame them, Washington needs to be changed and these people hoped that Barack Obama would be able to deliver it. Barack Obama went to Washington to change Washington, but Washington has changed him. Instead of the most open and honest administration in history, instead of the most transparent administration in history we are left with nothing but politics as usual.

  We are now getting more proof that Obama is nothing but a non-trustworthy politician just like all of the others with the news that firms with ties to President Obama stand to make a fortune if the healthcare reform bill is passed.

President Barack Obama‘s push for a national health careoverhaul is providing a financial windfall in the election offseason to Democratic consulting firms that are closely connected to the president and two top advisers.Coalitions of interest groups running at least $24 million in pro-overhaul ads hired GMMB, which worked for Obama’s 2008 campaign and whose partners include a top Obamacampaign strategist. They also hired AKPD Message and Media, which was founded by David Axelrod, a top adviser to Obama’s campaign and now to the White House. AKPD did work for Obama’s campaign, and Axelrod’s son Michael and Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe work there.

The firms were hired by Americans for Stable Quality Care and its predecessor, Healthy Economy Now. Each was formed by a coalition of interests with big stakes in health care policy, including the drug maker lobby PhRMA, the American Medical Association, the Service Employees International Union and Families USA, which calls itself “The Voice for Health Care Consumers.”

  We now know why the president has healthcare reform as one of his top issues. He and two of his top advisers have close ties to firms that stand to profit by this legislation. I am not naive, I expect this kind of bullshit from our elected officials but this man ran his whole campaign on the promise that he was a different kind of politician, his Chicago ties not withstanding. So these new revelations make him a hypocrite of astronomical proportions. I am not surprised about this but I wonder how manyof his supporters are beginning to realize that this man played them for fools. The American people should feel as if they have been had, because they have been had. Barack Obama is no better than any other two bit politician.

  Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.