Previously, they worked behind the scenes to help shape the Affordable Care Act. Today, they roam the streets of the nation’s capital as consultants and lobbyists. And now this elite group of Washington insiders stands to profit handsomely from the full implementation of Obamacare, President Barack Obama’s landmark health care law. “More than 30 former administration officials, lawmakers and congressional staffers who worked on the healthcare law have set up shop on K Street since 2010,” The Hill reports. Many Washington lobbying firms, including Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock, The Glover Park Group, Alston & Bird, BGR Group, and Akin Gump, have scooped up former Obamacare insiders. This, as the Hill report notes, puts the firms “in a prime position to land coveted clients.” “When [Vice President] Biden leaned over [during the signing of the healthcare law] and said to [President] Obama, ‘This is a big f’n deal,’ ” Ivan Adler, a headhunter at the McCormick Group, said in the report, “he was right.” The former Obamacare insiders now work on behalf of corporations, including Delta Air Lines, UPS, BP America, and Coca-Cola, and healthcare companies including GlaxoSmithKline, UnitedHealth Group, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. Former Obamacare insiders are seemingly taken on for one reason: to help companies navigate the massive and complicated health care law.theblaze/stories/2013/08/26/from-architect-to-lobbyists-obamacare-designers-stand-to-profit-handsomely-from-bill/
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 05:15:21 +0000
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