VIDEO ONE
Next week's video: HAARM Across America: Protesting Health Care Reform
Inside HAARM: Late Night Brainstorming Session
Next week's video: HAARM Across America: Protesting Health Care Reform
| Rick Scott gave up a lucrative career as a health industry CEO after being forced to resign amidst the largest Medicare fraud settlement in history.* He went on to found Conservatives for Patients' Rights, a swiftboat-style campaign to kill Obamacare. He was even a featured speaker at his local Tea Party protest! Rick is one of our favorites.
* He was totally going to quit that job, anyway. |
| Zach Wamp wears many different hats. He was elected to Congress by the people of Tennessee, but he spends most of his time running for governor and |
| Glenn Beck is ushering in a new era of fear mongering and histrionics every weeknight on his self-titled Fox News show. We basically wrote our health care platform by copy-and-pasting from transcripts of his show. Glenn’s hobbies include hunting for socialists, building giant props for his show, and crying. |
| Betsey McCaughey served one term as Lieutenant Governor of New York under Governor Pataki, but was not invited back on the ticket when the Gov. sought re-election. Despite that little setback – and a failed run for governor – Betsey has established a lucrative career with the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank that receives massive funding from giant health care corporations. She is the go-to person when the health industry needs an op-ed article written in a major newspaper. |
| The Chamber of Commerce is our secret weapon. When people think of the Chamber, they think of the business owners in their community. But what they don’t know is that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a massive lobbying organization that spends most of its time fighting pro-consumer legislation and lining the pockets of giant corporations. The Chamber has been in the anti-health care reform game for years. Whenever we get blue, we check out this little sampling of their greatest hits over a glass of scotch. Cheers us right up. |
| Most people know Rush Limbaugh as one of the country’s foremost experts on prescription drugs. But Rush is playing a much bigger role in the health care debate than that. Every day he educates his 20 million listeners on the finer points of Obamacare, like the little known tidbit that once this plan passes the government will be able to tell you not only what kind of car to drive but what kind of TV to purchase. Rush will never let the facts get in the way of scaring the bejeezus out of his listeners. |
| John Goodman is the President and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a think tank dedicated to defeating Obamacare, ending the Family Medical Leave Act, and destroying Social(ist) Security. He also runs a cyber organizing operation called a "blog" that tells us everything we need to know about Obamacare at research time. Which is all to say, when it comes to health policy, he’s the Dan to our Rosanne. |
