Rauner...

around and supports Pat Quinn who is running against Rauner for governor.

To me that proves Clinton is not beholding to folks like Rauner, Goldman Sachs, or even the American Camping Association that she spoke before too.

I'm not sure I see the problem here.

Hillary is smart enough to know who GTCR is and what their companies have done in regards to violations of the law.

The main company GTCR was recently involved with a nursing home scandal:

a lot of that, but people are too petty to admit it.

a multi billion dollar holding company that makes billions from the health care industry.

A company that is known to have engaged in defrauding Medicare and many other shady dealings. At the very least the optics are terrible.

Clinton doesn't support single payer because she supports strengthening the successful Obamacare program instead, building on accomplishments we worked hard for. Such as 16 million more people covered by health insurance, pre-existing conditions not a bar to coverage, refunds to customers if the company doesn't spend enough on actual health care, etc.

happen.

The ACA is better than when insurance companies were denying coverage and letting people die but it still leaves 30 million uninsured and millions more with deductibles that would be financially devastating.

If the over whelming majority of other industrialized nations can provide universal healthcare why can't America do so also?

Some people are too deluded to admit it.

They're called bribes.

But, to be fair, Hillary didn't know she would be running for president then.

a paid speech to Rauner's company will lose her the Illinois primary. Most people in Illinois despise Rauner and have buyers remorse from voting for him. If this fact gets out to Illinois voters it will kill Hillary's chances in Illinois. The voters won't take a chance at having buyers remorse for her too.

It's looking like she plays both sides of the fence here. What was that saying by Dubya? Fool me once and you won't fool me again - or something like that. Illinois voters won't be fooled again.

In my opinion - this revelation just killed all my respect for Hillary. If she won the Dem nomination I was prepared to hold my nose for her. Now I'm not sure what I'd do. I do know I'm going to double down and make another donation to Bernie and work all the harder to make him our nominee.

Go Bernie!!!
Feel the Bern!!!!

When was the last time a pres candidate was hounded about paid speeches? Oh that's right, never.

#sexismLives

She has been smashing double-standards birth.

...It's that Bernie Sanders ISN'T.

And as a 70 year old woman, a loyal Democrat all my life, and an active Democrat since I was 16 (JFK campaign, 1960) and a feminist longer than most women, I resent you saying that Sanders' supporters oppose Clinton's corruption because she is a woman.

I would love to see a woman president before I die. You better believe it, honey. I can remember, at 16, thinking that I could be Jackie but NOT Jack when I grew up, as far as role models went. I could NOT become president; only a president's wife. That's how bad things were. We pioneers CHANGED the expectations of young women! And you cannot know how much we want those expectations to result in a woman becoming president.

But not this one! She is going to drag the cause of feminism through the mud, and get it equated with greed, corruption and lies. Not to mention WAR! My God, she's got Henry Kissinger as an adviser (and close friend!). Do you have any idea what those of us who are in our 70s went through with that murderous bastard? Do you have any idea what his fascist allies in South America DID to leftist women in those countries, with his knowledge and approval? Do you have any idea how many women and children he incinerated in Southeast Asia? Any notion of what it meant to women here to lose their husbands, brothers, sons, in that terrible, senseless, military profiteer war?

Further, Clinton and her husband are responsible for crushing the hopes and lives of millions of women, by their advocacy of "free trade for rich" agreements that have sent U.S. manufacturing, and millions of jobs, overseas to the cheapest labor markets, by jailing millions of people here with their goddamned "war on drugs" and their for-profit prisons, destroying families and communities all over this country, and with welfare "reform" that also destroyed women's lives and their families and communities, and then--and then!--they removed the New Deal regulations that would have prevented the crash of 2008! Do you have any idea how many women's incomes and homes were destroyed by that crash?

And now she's getting hundreds of thousands of dollars from the entities who prospered in the crash--the ones who caused it. Our money. Our bailout money!

No, not this woman. No, no, no. Give me an honest person and a real Democrat, man or woman! It's nothing to do with gender. And when that glorious day comes when a woman finally becomes President of the United States, let it be a woman of integrity who seeks the common good.

Good for her....

Buying influence, buying votes.

It's a good racket the Clintons have going on. Highly successful.

Obscene doesn't even cover it.

so called dem clinton associates with a republican.

And why this might seem like a huge conflict of interest to take $280,000 for one speech to a company that has a vested interest in keeping American health care just as it is?

Medicare fraud concerns me. Does it concern you?

I guess at the time she didn't know how harmful it would have been.

It's okay if you're a clinton?

You know, in some sense she appeals to the cohort in the Democratic Party that is the counterpart to the low information Republican voter who throws his support behind a rich white New Yorker who holds the poor in something less than contempt. Some day that voter will be earning $300,000 per speech. Sheesh!

Why anyone supports her is beyond me.

The same organization also had Joe and Mika of "Morning Joe" there the year before to give a performance. It is the largest convention for U.S. Med Tech and some participants wondered what Past Politicians and "Morning Joe" had to do with the product management the Med Tech companies were there to discuss.. Some walked out of the "Morning Joe" performance complaining about that.

but we're not allowed to criticize them because ??????