{"id":17901,"date":"2013-05-13T17:46:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T21:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17901"},"modified":"2013-05-13T17:46:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T21:46:03","slug":"sebelius-already-raised-at-least-10-5-million-from-health-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17901\/sebelius-already-raised-at-least-10-5-million-from-health-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebelius Already Raised at Least $10.5 Million from Health Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of a Washington Post report that HHS Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17893\/sebelius-pressuring-health-companies-to-promote-obamacare\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kathleen Sebelius is actively soliciting health industry executives<\/a> for six- to seven-figure \u201cdonations\u201d to help publicize ObamaCare, the New York Times reveals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/13\/us\/politics\/health-secretary-raises-funds-for-health-care-law.html?emc=tnt&amp;tntemail0=y&amp;_r=1&amp; \" target=\"_blank\">how much she\u2019s netted in pledges so far: $10.5 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s just from two groups. One is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation which bills itself as the largest public health philanthropy. It pledged $10 million. The other is the for-profit tax preparation company H&amp;R Block who, according to the Times, \u201csees a large role for itself in helping low- and middle-income people apply for tax credits that can be used to buy private health insurance.\u201d It promised $500,000 for the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">propaganda<\/span> outreach effort.<\/p>\n<p>An unbiased observer could look at this and easily see at least the probability if not the certainty of a quid pro quo arrangement where payment to an HHS-backed initiative now means preferential treatment later.<\/p>\n<p>And remember, these two transactions are only the tip of the iceberg. Once more health industry entities confirm their involvement Sebelius\u2019 project we\u2019ll be able to see which firms will reap the lion\u2019s share of benefits of ObamaCare\u2019s corrupt pay-to-play scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Crony capitalism is alive and well in the Obama Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of a Washington Post report that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is actively soliciting health industry executives for six- to seven-figure \u201cdonations\u201d to help publicize ObamaCare, the New York Times reveals how much she\u2019s netted in pledges so far: $10.5 million. And that\u2019s just from two groups. One is the Robert Wood Johnson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3226,351,3179,3308,186,476,35],"class_list":["post-17901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-corrupt","tag-corruption","tag-crony","tag-health","tag-hhs","tag-kathleen-sebelius","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17901"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17907,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17901\/revisions\/17907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}