PR Whizzes
by digby
Any kind of government-run health insurance program would lead to higher costs for employers, corporate executives representing a big-business group said Wednesday.
The Business Roundtable, an alliance of corporate CEOs, criticized the public option in a conference call with reporters as congressional Democratic leaders intensified their push to include a government plan in their healthcare reform bills.
We’re here to voice our strong opposition,” said John Castellani, the president of the Roundtable.
Who cares what they think?
Seriously, this is why the moment for health care has to be now. These greedy jackasses are at their lowest level of power in decades, nobody trusts them, and at any other time our Galt drenched villagers would be bowing and scraping like Buckingham palace courtiers.
Right now, they are about as irrelevant as they’ve ever been after nearly wrecking the world and having not the slightest bit of humility about it, (although they are still plenty relevant.) But this is about the best we can hope for.
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