re: #10 Gus

Gillespie of course is back pedaling on this and claiming otherwise. We can look further in this press release during his involvement with CAHR:

America’s Top Business Leaders and Employers Join Forces to Advance Healthcare Reform

Also see GOP Turns To K Street Veterans To Help Unravel Health Care Law

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Andres served as Vice Chairman of Public Policy and Research for Dutko Worldwide, where, according to congressional public disclosure forms, he lobbied for insurance giant UnitedHealth Group and for a corporate umbrella organization called the Coalition to Advance Healthcare Reform.

The coalition’s website is now defunct, but you can view an archive of its homepage here and of its membership here.

Ironically, the coalition’s principles match the architecture of the final health care law almost perfectly. According to a 2009 disclosure form filed before the legislation was written, the group

[a]dvocated for reforms consistent with the coalition’s five principles: 1) Market-based healthcare: a paradigm to fix the healthcare delivery system through transparency in healthcare cost and quality and utilization of electronic records and prescriptions; 2) Universal coverage with individual responsibility a system in which all Americans have access to coverage with shared responsibilities among the government, businesses, and individuals; 3) Financial assistance for low-income individuals: a way for low-income participants to be provided financial assistance for coverage rather than healthcare being provided as a free good; 4) Healthier behavior and incentives: a strategy to incorporate full care management for chronic conditions with financial healthy-behavior incentives; 5) Equal tax treatment: a means for individuals to purchase healthcare in the same tax-advantaged way businesses do.

Now Andres will be working to repeal a law that accomplishes precisely these things.

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