As politicos left the Sunday morning talkshows this week, I asked about money in politics, specifically, from insurance and finance and if politicians were not doing the bidding of Wall Street in the healthcare debate.
Snowe: “Nothing to do with the contributions I receive”
I asked Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), if the problem — as the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee has argued — isn’t the “public option” — but the private option. I questioned her about Aetna and New York Life Insurance being among her largest contributors as she opposes an enhanced Medicare-for-all (or single payer) program — as well as even a mere public option: “I do what’s best for my constituency and the American people, it has nothing to do with the contributions I receive” the senator said.
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