Saturday, August 8, 2009

Obama in '08: We’ll Broadcast Health Care Negotiations on Cable

From Nice Deb, "Obama In August 08: We’ll Televise Health Care Negotiations On C-SPAN":

Yeah, what do you know, according to Polifact, Obama said this at a Town hall meeting on Aug. 21, 2008, in Chester, Va:

To achieve health care reform, “I’m going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We’ll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies — they’ll get a seat at the table, they just won’t be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we’ll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process.”

Well, when did that happen? Did I miss it? Where’s the transparency?

More at the link.

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