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AHIP Lobbyist: Bipartisan Health Care Reform Is Dead And The GOP Should Keep It That Way
TPM Election Central —
... the American health insurance companies told an audience last night that the the bipartisan journey to health care reform President Obama began earlier this year has reached its end.
AHIP lobbyist Steve Champlin spoke at the opening session of the health insurance trade group's "State Issues Conference" in Washington last night. His message? The GOP should stay away from any bill put forward by the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate.
Champlin, reported by the Huffington Post:
"There is absolutely no interest, no reason ...
Nobody Could Have Predicted
Eschaton —
That the insurance industry was actually against health care reform...
AHIP Lobbyist To GOP: Don't Give "Comfort To The Enemy" On Health Care
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... before the Republicans discovered that the House bill was a strategy to kill seniors and all that kind of stuff the plan was already unpopular," he added, underscoring why Republicans shouldn't attach themselves to the legislation. The remarks came during the opening session of AHIP's annual State Issues Conference in which both Champlin and his co-panelist seemed to concede that reform would pass and will include a variation of a public option for insurance coverage. Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/ahip-lobbyist-...
AHIP urges GOP not to give 'comfort to the enemy'
Political Animal —
... . Now, Sam Stein reports on the industry's message to Republicans. A top lobbyist for the major private insurance industry trade group, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), urged Congressional Republicans to not even consider helping Democrats pass health care reform lest they aid an "enemy who is down." Steve Champlin, a lobbyist for the Duberstein Group who represents AHIP, declared that the road to a bipartisan health care reform bill was, essentially, dead. And he urged GOP members to keep it that way. "There is absolutely no interest, no reason Republicans should ...
AHIP's Ready to Rumble, Kill Reform
Daily Kos —
... Now, Sam Stein is reporting that AHIP lobbyists are going for the jugular, trying to whip up Republicans against the "enemy" to kill reform at AHIP's annual State Issues Conference. ...
Thanks Max (Baucus)
Seeing the Forest —
... -- by Dave Johnson AHIP Lobbyist To GOP: Don't Give "Comfort To The Enemy" On Health Care , "There is absolutely no interest, no reason Republicans should ever vote for this thing. They have gone from a party that got killed 11 months ago to a party that is rising today. And they are rising up on the turmoil of health care," Posted by Dave Johnson at October 22, 2009 11:20 AM ...
AHIP’s Two-Faced Campaign Unravels: No ‘Comfort To The Enemy’ Vs. ‘Committed To Bipartisan Health Reform’
Think Progress —
... The self-conscious letter stands in stark contract with what Ignagni’s own lobbyists said today at an AHIP conference. According to the Huffington Post, Steve Champlin, a lobbyist for a firm representing AHIP, declared bipartisan health reform dead and urged GOP lawmakers to refuse to help pass a bill: ...
Thursday Catchup
Fired Up! Missouri —
... A top lobbyist for the major private insurance industry trade group (AHIP), urged Congressional Republicans to not even consider helping Democrats pass health care reform lest they aid an "enemy who is down." ...
Remainders: AHIP
Ben Smith's Blog —
Obama likes the executive pay cuts.
Paterson doesn't.
Obama, in the White House photostream, receives a Hindu honor.
W. signs on with Zig Ziglar.
The Senate grills czars.
Holbrooke denies indignantly that he's been silenced.
An AHIP lobbyist tells Republicans not to give comfort to the enemy.
Jim Steinberg gets the last edit.
Livni gives J Street a shout-out.
Charles Grassley used to be in the conversation.
Obama is designed. ...
AHIP plays make-believe
Political Animal —
... . This week, a top AHIP lobbyist described pro-reform Democrats as " the enemy " and insisted that congressional Republicans vote in lock-step against the final bill. And so it was a little comical yesterday when AHIP president Karen Ignagni characterized the insurers' group as ...
The Administration Has a Record of Trying to Kill the Public Option
Firedoglake —
... and special interests is bad politics. I hope they will stop banging their head against the wall, and realize that serving the President means fighting to include his best interests in the final legislation. A strong public option is in the President’s best interests. Simply put, Americans are tired of being squeezed while the ...
