Community | October 22, 2009 | 6 comments

AHIP Lobbyist To GOP: Don't Give "Comfort To The Enemy" On Health Care

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/ahip-lobbyist-to-gop-dont_n_329828.html

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A top lobbyist for the major private insurance industry trade group, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), urged Congressional Republicans to not even consider helping Democrats pass health care reform lest they aid an "enemy who is down."

Steve Champlin, a lobbyist for the Duberstein Group who represents AHIP, declared that the road to a bipartisan health care reform bill was, essentially, dead. And he urged GOP members to keep it that way.

"There is absolutely no interest, no reason Republicans should ever vote for this thing. They have gone from a party that got killed 11 months ago to a party that is rising today. And they are rising up on the turmoil of health care," said Champlin. "So when they vote for a health care reform bill, whatever it is, they are giving comfort to the enemy who is down."

"Long before the Republicans discovered that the House bill was a strategy to kill seniors and all that kind of stuff the plan was already unpopular," he added, underscoring why Republicans shouldn't attach themselves to the legislation.

The remarks came during the opening session of AHIP's annual State Issues Conference in which both Champlin and his co-panelist seemed to concede that reform would pass and will include a variation of a public option for insurance coverage.

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6 comments // AHIP Lobbyist To GOP: Don't Give "Comfort To The Enemy" On Health Care

  • JonRaymond
  • hpseaton
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      hpseaton  

    • It's always good to see how concerned corporate America is with taking care of their consumers. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside knowing government doesn't mind working hand in hand with corporations for the betterment of us. Sigh.

    • 2 years ago
  • Progresshiv
  • tommic
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      tommic  

    • Just another example of the reason to pressure our lawmakers in washington D.C. to stand up pass legislation outlawing the lobbying of government officals.
      We as a country would be so much better off without them.They cost in all different ways, from lobbying for pork barrel spending on behalf of special interest groups to lobbying on the behalf of major corporations who recieve huge sums of tax dollar through subsidies.
      There is absolutly no good reason to have these leeches of society screwing ALL Americans with their bribes paid in the form of campaign contributions.

      tommic

    • 2 years ago
  • neocongo
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      neocongo  

    • Now that is a statement from a man representing an industry that is about to get its ass kicked to the curb not only by healthcare reform legislation, but a re-implementation of antitrust laws against it.

    • 2 years ago
  • WakeUpPeople
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