Medicare Contractor Firm Donates to GOP

Lori Price CLG

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Tue May-11-04 01:13 AM
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Medicare Contractor Firm Donates to GOP

Medicare Contractor Firm Donates to GOP

A few weeks after the Bush administration named Medco to be one of the first Medicare drug card providers, a company executive helped throw a $100,000 fund-raiser for the president (sic) that was headlined by Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson.

The role of Medco Specialty Pharmacy Services president Alan Lotvin, a co-chairman of the mid-April event in New Jersey, is just one of the ways prescription drug card providers have reached out to Washington politicians over the last two years.

In all, companies that won approval from Thompson's department to be the first Medicare drug discount card providers spent at least $35 million lobbying in 2003, and their executives and lobbyists donated or raised hundreds of thousands of dollars more for Bush's re-election (sic: re-s-election), an Associated Press review found.

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nadinbrzezinski

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Tue May-11-04 01:22 AM
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1. Ah you scratch my back, I scratch yours

SICKENING

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Lori Price CLG

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Tue May-11-04 01:29 AM
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3. Yes, and a total media blackout...

...due to coverage of even *greater* acts of fascism and terrorism by the Bush dictatorship.

:grr:

-Lori

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MidwestTransplant

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Tue May-11-04 01:24 AM
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2. I hope you aren't suggesting there is some kind of connection

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Racenut20

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Tue May-11-04 06:08 AM
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4. Did Bush* come and throw out the first pill????

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incrediblehulk

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Tue May-11-04 06:17 AM
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5. This Is All A Part Of The Greater Sell Out Of America

Drug companies have traditionally used their lobbying strength to buy into the government at all levels. Nothing that the government proposes that concerns their business escapes their notice and they make sure, thru buying off various politicians with campaign donations, that any laws passed do not harm them or favor them outright. The Main Idiot at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is one of the biggest sell-outs to the drug companies. His complicity with a major drug company is nothing new. That it makes the news, is new.

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GOPisEvil

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Tue May-11-04 07:46 AM
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6. Send that article inside a thank you card to the AARP...

...talk about selling out your membership.

The phrase we are searching for is "QUID PRO QUO".

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