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General News 12/3/2019 at 12:11 PM EST H3'ed 12/3/19

Lobbyists Help Lawmakers Write Op Eds Slamming Medicare-for-All

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Steve Schneider

Wealthy Americans have paid lobbyists to help lawmakers craft newspaper opinion pieces trashing Medicare-for-All.

Is anyone really surprised at this disgusting level of manipulation and political gutlessness.

Hopefully journalists, moderate, reasonable Democrats and proud progressives

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren will let the lobbyists and their pol pals have it good at the next televised debate.

Uncle Joe and Mayor Pete also need to make it clear that they are spouting their own ideas, and not opinions fed them by corporate interests and lobbyists.

Stay tuned.

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