Ryan Chittum nabs an interesting find from Bloomberg.
Health insurers last year gave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce $86.2 million that was used to oppose the health-care overhaul law, according to tax records and people familiar with the donation.
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The spending on the Chamber exceeded the insurer group’s entire budget from a year earlier and accounted for 40 percent of the Chamber’s $214.6 million in 2009 expenditures. ...The $86.2 million paid for advertisements, polling and grass roots events to drum up opposition to the bill, said Tom Collamore, a Chamber of Commerce spokesman.
Read Chittum's commentary. Nice to see the health care lobby doesn't have the guts to own up to its own viewpoint. So they hire the Chamber, willing surrogate for anyone who can pay.
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