Corruption doesn’t get more blatant than the Senate Finance Committee protecting a rapacious health care industry — defying their own constituencies who demand a public health insurance option — as it engorges their campaign chests.
What we citizens need to know is: Exactly who contributed to whom today as Congressional committees deliberated? Every generous installment to each Congress member should be prime-time network news. If the media revealed the industry’s money-throwing at key legislators as religiously as their Congressional posturing, an incensed public would rise up in anger, seeing the fix is in.
But in the mainstream media, private-interest payoffs are verboten. We must demand that the media spotlight each health industry pay-off to each Senate Finance Committee member while it subverts reform to protect private interests.