AOC exposes just how easily lobbyists manipulate policymakers
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used her Twitter feed on Monday to show voters how corporate lobbyists influence legislators.
“This event wasn’t about fixing the health care system,” Wendell Potter, president of Business Initiative for Health Policy, told the Intercept. “It was about protecting the health care industry, no matter the cost to patients, families, workers or employers.” — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez May 13, 2019 When I was looking at lobbying from the outside, just as a normal voting citizen, it appeared to me as more transactional in nature than it actually is.
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