spectator.org - 3/3/2009
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Nancy-Ann Min DeParle, who President Obama appointed as director
of the White House Office of Health Care Reform on Monday, took
home at least $2.4 million in 2006 and 2007 from serving on the
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Matt Lewis: New WH Health Czar Raked in $2.4 Mln from Industry Board Service
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Over at AmSpecBlog, Philip Klein has done some reporting work and discovered something interesting ... Nancy-Ann Min DeParle, who President Obama appointed as director of the White House Office of Health Care Reform on Monday, took home at least $2.4 million in 2006 and 2007 from serving on the corporate boards of health-care companies whose businesses she would be in a position to affect in her new position. More here .
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... would you find a cynical situation like ours, in which federal law prohibits a shopkeeper from selling tobacco to someone under 18 because of the health risk, yet will soon require a physician to perform abortions on demand. You have to wonder if that's the product of the caterpillar's mushroom-induced thinking, or of whatever he's smoking in his hookah. Oh well, maybe someone will wake us up before we lose our heads. -- A. C. Santore DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH Re: Philip Klein's New Health Czar Challenges Obama's Ethics Reforms : ...
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