By Steve Sailer
10/13/2009
Many on the left are displeased by both the effectiveness and content of Barack Obama’s leadership on health care finance reform. Where’s the Canadian-style single payer system? Is the public option in or out?What’s almost never mentioned is that a large private medical institution, the University of Chicago Hospitals, invested heavily in influencing Obama’s mindset on this issue by employing his wife, back when he was the ranking Democrat on the Illinois Senate Health and Human Services committee, as their diversity outreach coordinator at a six figure salary. When Obama moved up to the U.S. Senate, his wife’s compensation was bumped all the way up to $317k. When she became First Lady and could no longer serve, the U of C Hospitals simply eliminated this previously crucial position.
Funny how you never hear much about that from the left …
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