President Obama today assailed those who “create boogeymen out there that just aren’t real.”
Then the president, after listing all his allies in reform — drugmakers, the American Medical Association, AARP, and others — immediately attacked the “special interests” who:
use their influence. They use their political allies to scare and mislead the American people. They start running ads. This is what they always do.We can’t let them do it again. Not this time. Not now.
But which special interests, if it’s not the drugmakers? The implication would be the heath insurers, who gave $1.4 million to Barack Obama in 2008, more than to any politician in the history of the planet. They do oppose a government option, but they’ve lobbied heavily for just about everything else.
So, are there real “special interests profiting from the status quo” trying to sink Obama’s reform? Or are they boogeymen created for political gain?
