Posted on 11/14/2013 4:53:28 PM PST by jimbo123
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is a vocal critic of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act and its glitch-stricken website, HealthCare.gov, repeatedly calling for repeal of the law "root and branch."
"At this point, senators from both parties can agree: HealthCare.gov is a rolling disaster. Every day seems to bring more, newer comic calamity," McConnell, R-Ky., said Oct. 29 in a Senate floor speech. "The only thing the website seems to be good for right now is creating punch lines for late-night comedians."
However, since 2011, McConnell has accepted more than $75,000 in political donations from health care giant UnitedHealth Group, which owns the technology company that helped build and launch HealthCare.gov for a reported $155 million and now is responsible for fixing it.
The donations came from UnitedHealth's political action committee and five of its top executives; they went to McConnell's 2014 re-election campaign and two fundraising committees that he oversees, the Bluegrass Committee and the McConnell-Cornyn Leadership Victory Committee.
UnitedHealth also co-hosted a $1,000-per-person fundraising dinner for McConnell's campaign last December in Washington, D.C. And the company, based in Minnetonka, Minn., retains former McConnell chief of staff Billy Piper as a Washington lobbyist to work on its behalf in Congress on implementation of the Affordable Care Act, Senate records show.
UnitedHealth, which tends to favor incumbent Democrats and Republicans as it gives more than $1 million in political donations during a typical two-year election cycle, has expressed optimism about the health care law.
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Ditch Mitch.
This old fossil has GOT TO GO.
When we get back the senate next year, the LAST person we want at the helm is this WEAK KNEED IDIOT.
Sheesh.
Mitch McConnell Supports ObamaCare
Anyone supporting McConnell in his primary run SUPPORTS OBAMACARE...you too Rand Paul
And McConnell will say nothing once the ObamaCare bailout money starts to flow to the insurance companies next year via the Risk Corridor scam.
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2014&cid=n00003389&type=I
Senator Mitch McConnell
Kindred Healthcare $76,300 $66,300 $10,000
Humana Inc $45,550 $40,550 $5,000
Blue Cross/Blue Shield $41,450 $24,450 $17,000
Aetna Inc $38,450 $28,450 $10,000
We got gangsters running this joint.
Pounce, Bevin!!!
Paging Matt Bevin!
Mitch has already declared war on his base.
It would be a great message to the GOPe to show that they can't take conservatives for granted.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is a vocal critic of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act
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He is?? How can you tell?
Mitch isn’t very vocal about anything except bad mouthing his primary opponents.
Yes rand Paul is bought and paid for by Mitch.
Evil health care companies. Always trying to get republicans elected to protect their big business dealings and keep us from getting saddled with socialized medicine....
Yep.
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