From News From the Underground (Jerry Policoff:reporting)
There was a juicy tidbit buried in paragraph 17 of an Associated Press story this morning:
"Nearly as shaken by the Massachusetts vote were health care provider groups that have supported the Democratic effort, such as drug makers, hospitals and doctors.
"While few were making public statements, industry groups that stood to gain millions of newly insured customers were worried that such potential gains were in jeopardy, according to lobbyists speaking on condition of anonymity to describe confidential conversations."
So much for phony industry pretences that they opposed this bill. That was a total ruse. It went largely unnoticed by the mainstream media that the insurance industry poured millions into Martha Coakley's campaign. Why would they do that when she supported the Senate bill and Brown opposed it? Silly question. It is because they supported it too.
Jerry Policoff
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