Ben Nelson Against Arbitrary Health Care Deadline
Sen. Ben Nelson issued a statement against President Barack Obama's arbitrary deadline for health care reform. Nelson has gone on the record against the public health care option.
Nelson's problem, he told CQ, is that the public plan would be too attractive and would hurt the private insurance plans. "At the end of the day, the public plan wins the game," Nelson said. Including a public option in a health plan, he said, was a "deal breaker."
Two of Nelson's biggest campaign contributors are the insurance and health care industies.
Eli Lilly & Co.- $27,250
UnitedHealth Group Inc. - $25,000
American Optometric Association - $25,000
Schering-Plough Corp. - $25,000 American Medical Association -$24,500
Amgen Inc. - $24,250
Pfizer Inc. - $22,600
American Dental Association - $22,000
American Physical Therapy Association - $21,500
GlaxoSmithKline - $21,285
American Health Care Association - $21,250
American Hospital Association - $20,000
Blue Cross/Blue Shield has been a major contributor to Nelson. The Senator is doing the bidding of lobbyists. He backed off threatening to filibuster. The netroots campaign against Nelson was successful.
Nelson is giving a lot of sound and fury. He isn't going to lift a finger for or against the Senate bill. One must have principle, in order to have a spine. Nelson has neither.
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