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Here's the story, which is in every paper!
Obama was meeting with health execs in FebruaryBy SHARON THEIMER (AP) – 6 hours ago
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's administration began holding private meetings with health industry executives at the White House a few weeks after he took office, a visitor list released Wednesday night by the White House shows. Lobbyists were among those there to talk health care.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j904hBjTq0B-AklYcG2sbK0d76dQD99JS9GG0The only problem with this story is that everyone already knew that those folks on the "list" had been to the White House for meetings. They weren't "secret".
What's up with this? why now?
Is the media trying to repeat 1993...even if it doesn't fit?
Or are we supposed to get all "Knee jerk" about this or what?
Cause is sure seems like it! :shrug:
White House Healthcare Summit: Obama Calls on All Sectors to Cut Costs Comment Email Print RSS
John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media,
March 5, 2009About 150 people from the across the healthcare spectrum, as well as labor and business leaders, and Congressional Republicans and Democrats were called to the half-day summit.
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American Hospital Association President Richard J. Umbdenstock, who attended today's summit, said
he told President Obama at last week's fiscal responsibility summit that the nation's hospitals will answer his call for "shared responsibility" as long as everybody else does too.
"We believe we have to be part of the solution, but so do vendors, suppliers, other providers, employers, and consumers themselves. It's not going to be solved by one approach or putting it on the shoulders of any one stakeholder," Umbdenstock told HealthLeaders Media.
http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/229280/topic/WS_HLM2_LED/White-House-Healthcare-Summit-Obama-Calls-on-All-Sectors-to-Cut-Costs.htmlVP Biden and Umbdenstock
Vice President Joe Biden speaks about a White House deal with hospitals to help pay for President Barack Obama's overhaul of health care, Wednesday, July 8, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. At right is Rich Umbdenstock, President of the American Hospital Association.By AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. Posted March 5, 2009.
"This is a great start," said W.J. "Billy" Tauzin, a former House member from Louisiana who now runs the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), referring to Obama's health-care plan. "There are things we don't like about it. But there's time to discuss all that."
Obama's opening gambit to dramatically expand the health-care system has attracted surprising notes of support from insurers, hospitals and other players in the powerful medical lobby who are set to participate in an unusual White House summit on the issue this afternoon. The lure for the industry is the prospect of tens of millions of new customers: If Obama succeeds in fulfilling his pledge to cover many more Americans, those newly insured people will get checkups, purchase medicine, undergo physical therapy and get surgeries they cannot afford today.
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/130315/'disease_care'_industry_likes_obama's_approach_to_health_reform/