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Who's paying to block healthcare reform and specifically any competition to big Health Insurance? We know big Health Insurance and Big Pharma has been paying off our congress and senate with huge payments to their lets get re-elected funds. But the blatant outrageousness of Senator Evan Bayh, a leader in blocking effective healthcare reform, takes the prize. Bayh has acted against the wishes of his electors and enriched himself, or rather his wife. They have benefitted from the large rise in healthcare stock value over the last six weeks, possibility to the tune of $125,000 to $250,000.
Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald zooms:
Just to put this boon to health insurance stocks in perspective: according [to] an Indianapolis Star article from June, Evan Bayh's wife, Susan, "owns from $500,001 to $1 million in employee stock in WellPoint, the Indianapolis-based insurance giant on whose board she sits." That would mean that the value of her personal holdings in that one health insurance company alone, in the last six weeks alone (since [Senator Joseph] Lieberman and her husband began menacing the public option), would have increased by a value of between $125,000 and $250,000. As part of the bonanza of health care industry board positions she magically received since her husband became a Senator, Susan Bayh is given a quarter-million dollars each year in stocks and stock options from Wellpoint. That's just a microcosm for considering how well Obama's so-called "special interests" have done as a result of this health care bill.
How does Bayh's new found wealth sit with you, struggling to make ends meet on unemployment benefits, if you are lucky? The bigger question is will Iniana voters remember Bayh's selfishness come election time.
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