Daschle Paid $220,000 By Health Care Industry

American Voices • Politics • healthcare • ISSUE 45•06 • Feb 3, 2009

President Obama's pick for secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Daschle, has received almost a quarter million dollars in speaking fees from various health care companies over the past two years. What do you think?

“Daschle got screwed. Health insurance providers can afford a lot more than that.”
Frank Watson –
Loan Collector
“It's still not as bad as the $400,000 that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has received from the geyser and hot springs lobby.”
Leslie Adelman –
Unemployed
“I don't think that would conflict with the traditional health secretary’s role of failing to reform health care.”
Rory Kasel –
Travel Nurse

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