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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1063634" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><strong>Obamacare architect leaves White House for pharmaceutical industry job</strong></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/05/obamacare-fowler-lobbyist-industry1" target="_blank"><strong>Obamacare architect leaves White House for pharmaceutical industry job - The Guardian</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Whatever one's views on Obamacare were and are: the bill's mandate that everyone purchase the products of the private health insurance industry, unaccompanied by any public alternative, was a huge gift to that industry; as Wheeler wrote at the time: "to the extent that Liz Fowler is the author of this document, we might as well consider WellPoint its author as well." Watch the five-minute Bill Moyers report from 2009, embedded below, on the key role played in all of this by Liz Fowler and the "revolving door" between the health insurance/lobbying industry and government officials at the time this bill was written and passed.</p><p></p><p>More amazingly still, when the Obama White House needed someone to oversee implementation of Obamacare after the bill passed, it chose . . . Liz Fowler. That the White House would put a former health insurance industry executive in charge of implementation of its new massive health care law was roundly condemned by good government groups as at least a violation of the "spirit" of governing ethics rules and even "gross", but those objections were, of course, brushed aside by the White House. She then became Special Assistant to the President for Healthcare and Economic Policy at the National Economic Council.</p><p></p><p>Now, as Politico's "<a href="http://www.politico.com/politicoinfluence/" target="_blank">Influence</a>" column briefly noted on Tuesday, Fowler is once again passing through the deeply corrupting revolving door as she leaves the Obama administration to return to the loving and lucrative arms of the private health care industry:</p><p></p><p>"Elizabeth Fowler is leaving the White House for a senior-level position leading 'global health policy' at Johnson & Johnson's government affairs and policy group."</p><p></p><p>[video=youtube;hZ5tj4cN9Jk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ5tj4cN9Jk[/video]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1063634, member: 1"] [b]Obamacare architect leaves White House for pharmaceutical industry job[/b] [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/05/obamacare-fowler-lobbyist-industry1"][B]Obamacare architect leaves White House for pharmaceutical industry job - The Guardian[/B][/URL] Whatever one's views on Obamacare were and are: the bill's mandate that everyone purchase the products of the private health insurance industry, unaccompanied by any public alternative, was a huge gift to that industry; as Wheeler wrote at the time: "to the extent that Liz Fowler is the author of this document, we might as well consider WellPoint its author as well." Watch the five-minute Bill Moyers report from 2009, embedded below, on the key role played in all of this by Liz Fowler and the "revolving door" between the health insurance/lobbying industry and government officials at the time this bill was written and passed. More amazingly still, when the Obama White House needed someone to oversee implementation of Obamacare after the bill passed, it chose . . . Liz Fowler. That the White House would put a former health insurance industry executive in charge of implementation of its new massive health care law was roundly condemned by good government groups as at least a violation of the "spirit" of governing ethics rules and even "gross", but those objections were, of course, brushed aside by the White House. She then became Special Assistant to the President for Healthcare and Economic Policy at the National Economic Council. Now, as Politico's "[URL="http://www.politico.com/politicoinfluence/"]Influence[/URL]" column briefly noted on Tuesday, Fowler is once again passing through the deeply corrupting revolving door as she leaves the Obama administration to return to the loving and lucrative arms of the private health care industry: "Elizabeth Fowler is leaving the White House for a senior-level position leading 'global health policy' at Johnson & Johnson's government affairs and policy group." [video=youtube;hZ5tj4cN9Jk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ5tj4cN9Jk[/video] [/QUOTE]
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