GA Gov. Nathan Deal Taking Payola To Obstruct Obamacare
Ralph Hudgens GA Obamacare Obstructionist
Last week Georgia’s Insurance Commissioner proudly came out as an Obamacare obstructionist, bragging that Georgia would require “navigators” – people hired to assist individuals sign up for Obamacare — to be licensed by the Georgia Department of Insurance.
That was bad enough, but now it gets really ugly. Via Raw Story:
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R)’s family and business partner have been receiving payments from a secret Political Action Committee called Real PAC. Half a million dollars of the money donated to the PAC has come from corporate health care interests which — like the governor and Georgia state Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens — oppose the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as “Obamacare.”
According to investigative reporter Jim Walls of Atlanta Unfiltered, the PAC hasn’t filed taxes or the required financial disclosures in two years, and the information it did file for 2011 was incorrect.
Contributors to Real PAC include Aetna, Humana, Blue Cross, United Health care and other interests that want to keep health insurance premiums and other costs as high as possible. Bryan Long of activist group Better Georgia told Raw Story that the list of donors shows who Gov. Deal really works for.
While I’m certain Governor Deal will say there’s no quid pro quo, AtlantaUnfiltered proves that to be wrong:
Major benefactors of the committee, Real PAC, include health-care interests seeking tens of millions — even billions — of dollars in business with state government. One donor, WellCare of Georgia, gave Real PAC $50,000 on the same day that state Medicaid officials said they planned to extend WellCare’s $1 billion-a-year contract for two years.
Let’s also pay attention to the Big Donors here: United Health, Aetna, Humana and Blue Cross. United Health and Aetna have declined to participate in state-based exchanges in states where they’re actually regulatedlike California and New York, opting instead to hand off some payola to a corrupt Georgia governor in order for him to behave like an obstructionist.
Hat Tip to Karoli at Crooks and Liars blog
i’ve been searching for GA updated obamacare news. those of us that battled his governorship…we knew he’d pull the worst stunts. and thanks for waiting to last minute Dealer…but what should be expect from a CONgressman SO corrupt, resignation was mandatory.
http://www.citizensforethics.org/worst-governors-in-america/entry/nathan-deal-georgia
Aby:
I understand completely. Up here in Michigan, the governor is good; but, the Republican dominated legislature dragged its feet on passage even though the Republican governor wanted it. Well, they passed it last week; but, they did not take up a vote for it to have immediate impact. What happens now is the state loses out on $600 million and coverage takes place in April rather than January. They did it out of spite. I suspect their will be changes in the legislature at many of us are angry with them. By the way, the news input came from Karoli at Crooks and Liars. I think I have a link to them in the writeup.
Thanks for sharing the update Run…or shall i say the foreshadowing.
Dealer pushed hard for the Senior Citizen Vote…deplorable how he’s going to play this on them.
this poor blogger has probably had a coronary by now:
“For the record, Nathan Deal owes more money in business loans than a full time minimum wage worker in this state would earn in 340 years. Check the math if you don’t believe it. (And those are just the loans we KNOW about!)”