04-04-2014, 08:17 PM
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Grace-Marie Turner, the writer of the Op-Ed cited by the OP is a longtime right-wing health industry lobbyist/shill/tool:
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According their web page, the Galen Institute is funded by:
"[a]variety of sources, including philanthropic foundations, individual donors, and companies both inside and outside the health sector."
According to Powerbase.org's page on The Galen Institute, they received funding from the following grants:
-The Scaife Foundations, the umbrella for multiple foundations, which is "Financed by the Mellon industrial, oil and banking fortune. At one time its largest single holding was stock in the Gulf Oil Corporation. Became active in funding conservative causes in 1973."
-Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, which supports "[the] organizations and individuals that promote the deregulation of business, the rollback of virtually all social welfare programs, and the privitization of government services."
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Do you really think that the Galen Institute would write an Op-Ed that would favor individuals getting access to health care that was efficient and cheap?
Or would they write an Op-Ed in favor of a busted system that denies care, jacks rates, and does it's very best to deny care if it is too expensive? Here's Ms. Turner's money quote from her op-ed:
"ObamaCare imposes a battery of new rules on insurance plans, dictating that they must spend a certain percentage of premium payments on medical care vs. administrative costs. But many firms simply can?t meet the test, for a number of reasons."
Her problem is the new health care law mandates that 80 to 85 cents of every dollar spent by these plans go directly to actual health care, and not administrative costs or profits. What are the reasons they can't comply? Is it because she is funded by for-profit companies that don't want to lose their profit margin?
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Galen Institute: ?partner organization? of the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
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Grace-Marie Turner Distorts Data About Health Care Law's Impact On Job Creation
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I saw Pain?s post at Hell and as I listened to this lying shitbag, Grace Marie Turner, spew, I knew I had to post video this here.
This is the perfect example of listening to a person speak and offer advice and then doing precisely the opposite to be on the safe side.
Pain says she is ?in bed with Big Medicine to the tune of nearly 700 000 USD per year?. Just a cursory listen by an informed individual reveals that what she is saying is nothing more than shilling for Insurance and Meds.
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Galen was founded in 1995 by Grace-Marie Turner. In 2003, Galen established the Center for Consumer Driven Health Care.
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According to Galen's 2005 report to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS form 990), the organization had $695,022 in income and $607,615 in expenses that year. Turner's compensation for an estimated 60 hours per week of work at Galen was $180,000.
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