Did the healthcare industry scare the White House? At age 50 I joined AARP and was told that even though I’m healthy I may have rheumatoid arthritis and they won’t touch me with a ten-foot pole. But they asked about my younger healthy husband, trying to make profits, and I said no way. He was working as a consultant at the time but the recruiter “missed” filing for health insurance so we had to go on COBRA for a few months.
To those who suspended these “clandestine” studies today, if it’s a matter of paying people to go check things out I bet a whole lot of people will do it without being paid to do so just to try to get to a doctor or get their kids to see one. I’d hate to think the insurance and medical lobbies shut down this study as the people to blame for this right now are the policy wonks who advertised this study or leaked it to the press in advance.
I’ve worked with insurance lobbyists before and their answer is always “no, no, no.” Sounds like the tea party, except insurance has all our money and the Tea Party doesn’t until they find something to lobby for. Dee
Cooking with Dee 