Zen Health Moment of the Day

As part of a "record-breaking influence campaign," the nation's "largest insurers, hospitals and medical groups have hired more than 350 former government staff members and retired members of Congress" to lobby Capitol Hill "in hopes of influencing their old bosses and colleagues" on health care legislation. The industry is "spending more than $1.4 million a day on lobbying in the current fight."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/05/AR2009070502770.html?wprss=rss_politics