Third Way's Contoversial Health Care Memo Drafted By Ex-Insurance Industry Advocate

Huffington Post by Ryan Grim | Jun. 8, 2009 (News Report)

A health care policy statement causing an uproar among progressives was drafted by two policy analysts with longtime connections to the health insurance industry.

The paper, leaked by the organization Third Way Monday, rejects calls for a public health care option that would compete with private insurance on the grounds that it would be divisive and undermine broader reform goals. The position would be unsurprising coming from the insurance ... Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 8, 2009

The news is that the enemy is writing the position papers for those who are supposed to be friends of the ordinary people.

Good health care might protect us from malicious moles.

The two authors are Anne Kim and David Kendall. Kendall is a former consultant for the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Association, one of the most powerful insurers in the nation. He is on the board of directors for the Wye River Group on Healthcare, which is funded to the tune of a million dollars by CIGNA, a major health insurance player. Kim is a former corporate attorney with Hogan and Hartson, a top health care industry lobby shop, and Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton.

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