The Next Townhall You Get Invited To Might Be Industry Sponsored. If I Go Will I Get A Hug From Some PhRMA CEO?

UPDATE: My feeling exactly. The townhall was too tightly controlled, pre-packaged. That might account for the relative mildness of the question from Healthcare-Now. I expected more from them.

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The health insurance lobby plans to hold more than 75 town hall and other events around the country this week to rally their supporters on health care reform. I'm not exactly sure how you fill up a room full of insurance CEO's. They may have to force the clerical staff to attend as well.

There's going to be a lot more advertising too. Lobbyists are circling Capitol Hill.

I've seen several commercials from PhRma. Oh, they want to give $80M over 10 years to pay 1/2 of the donut hole. That's about $8 million per year, $.66 million per month, chump change for those companies who pay their CEOs in the tens of millions every year. We could just end the donut hole by law, but then we wouldn't be enriching the rich, the new American patriotism.

I'd say they're going with the old medical adage, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." They just don't believe in that for us.