Comments on: Evan Bayh’s multimillion dollar health care conflict of interest

By: crayfishturtle

crayfishturtle — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:26:23 +0000

Is everybody in this country to stupid that they are going to let all of this abuse continue?
We just continue to get the shaft.When are people of the US going to get a fair shake? When are the laws going to be enforced? When are our representatives going to be forced to do the right thing?
When are we going to create a system that is fair to all and one that works for the good of all citizens?

By: Rick Ungar

Rick Ungar — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:49:21 +0000

Good for you. It never hurts to send those kind of letters. They get noticed.

By: ccc153

ccc153 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:34:05 +0000

Not sure if will do any good, but I sent a fax this morning (10-29-09) to the Select Committee on Ethics for the United States Senate requesting an investigation into what I consider a conflict of interest with Mrs. Bayh’s position on Wellpoint and Senator Bayh’s public announcement that he is against the public option in the health care reform bill. I feel both are thinking of their own financial gain/loss and Senator Bayh cannot vote without that issue clouding his judgement. Perhaps I’m naive to anticipate their sending me the results of their investigation. I will continue to call once a week until I get a response.

By: E.D. Kain - American Tory – Conflicts of interest in the health care debate - True/Slant

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:31:25 +0000

[...] Ungar has been covering the conflicts of interest of Democratic Senator Evan Bayh: Yesterday’s post here at The Policy Page described Senator Evan Bayh’s huge conflict of interest in the health care reform debate. As the [...]

By: Brian In NYC

Brian In NYC — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:21:10 +0000

Cue Twilight Zone theme music!

By: andylevinson

andylevinson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:15:00 +0000

Everyone knows it was a “do nothing job”, the job….that job disappeared when Michelle quit….

You deleted my second, post which wasn’t off topic…..since Obama, himself thinks he is the ONLY topic…..

All, I can say, is thank God, Obama has hidden his birth certificate….because when he is kicked out of the white house….everything he has put his signature to….will be voided….

By: Rick Ungar

Rick Ungar — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:55:24 +0000

Your allegation was that she was making $300k in a “do nothing government job”.
1. She had a full time job as a vice president, as you acknowledge. By all accounts I’ve seen she was well respected so, I think that disposes of the whole “do nothing” thing. True- she was under qualified having only graduated from Harvard Law and practiced in one of the nation’s most prestigious law firms.
2. the University of Chicago would not be a government jog.
3. Do you think you’re making an impression when you switch the topic, when you are shown to be wrong, to a birther argument?
4. Nobody ever said Factcheck was the final word on anything. But, as much as you may not like it, the facts are the facts. Not much reason to pick on Factcheck unless you can provide some facts, on the topic, that reveal they are worng.

Everyone here is welcomed to disagree. In fact, it is highly encouraged. But we do expect better than going 180 degrees off topic to rant about something that isn’t even close to what we are talking about, especially when you don’t have any of the facts anywhere in the vicinity of correct. You need to do better if you want to be taken seriously..

By: andylevinson

andylevinson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:41:43 +0000

From factcheck: “She went from earning $121,910 in 2004 as an executive director at the hospital to making $316,962 in 2005 as a vice president, according to tax returns filed by the Obamas for those years”

Fact check sure has all the in’s and out’s of Michelle Obama’s pay….but knows nothing of Mr. Obama’s birth certificate which by the way was sealed by hawaii’s governor

Now if you check with factcheck, they rely on a couple of Hawaiian public officals who are the only ones to have a peek at the Obama long form birth certificate.

The Obama long form birth certificate remains hidden and unverified by any legal authority to this day……and anyone who says they know for a fact—–is lying.The only one who knows for sure, is Obama, himself….and no other person on earth.

BTW, factcheck is not the final authority on anything…it’s just another website run by a billionaire’s foundation

By: Rick Ungar

Rick Ungar — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:45:14 +0000

daedulus – sounds like a matter of degree and not really the focus on the article in any event. I accept that you may have been there, but if you take a little time to read up on this, you will find what I found – many writers in Indiana do claim that this was a significant part of why he lost. Either way, it is a footnote and off the point of the piece which is what his son is now doing.

By: daedulus

daedulus — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:42:32 +0000

Yes, I recall Koreagate and as you noted, Sen. Bayh did not receive any money. I do not believe, however, that this was an issue in the campaign. There was never an opposition television commercial that referenced this, nor questioned Sen. Bayh’s integrity. All three of his wins were pretty slim in a very conservative state. Even his 1974 Watergate win was slender over later Sen. Richard Lugar. His loss in 1980, along with five other progressive senators, was a reaction to the Carter years and part of the Reagan landslide. It was not a question of Birch Bayh’s ethics which meet a high standard.