"Chamber Of Commerce Solicits Money For Economist Who Will Give Bad Review Of Health Care Bill"

[TomCADem]

From Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/16/chamber-of-commerce-solic_n_358706.html

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is soliciting funds to pay an economist $50,000 to study health care reform legislation and issue (what the lobby presumes) will be a negative review, providing ammunition to shoot down health care reform in the Senate, according to The Washington Post.

The Newspaper obtained an e-mail from James P. Gelfand, the senior manager of health policy at the Chamber of Commerce detailing how the plan would work:


"The economist will then circulate a sign-on letter to hundreds of other economists saying that the bill will kill jobs and hurt the economy. We will then be able to use this open letter to produce advertisements, and as a powerful lobbying and grass-roots document.

The lobby's senior vice president seems to contradict Gelfand's email as he explains it, saying that the group never intended to say how the economist's study would turn out.

[TomCADem]

1. No comments from folks arguing that the Big Business and Insurance are promoting this bill?

Just curious?

Likewise, there were not many responses to my post listing the AHIP press release attacking the Senate Bill. Is it that evidence of the U.S. Chamber and AHIP are fighting the bill does not fit into the narrative that Democrats are selling out to corporate America by supporting HCR bills?