You've got to hand it to Gannett board member Donna Shalala (left), who was secretary of Health and Human Services in the Clinton White House. She told talk show host Charlie Rose last month that she backed Congressional health care reform because it would help cover millions of families who don't have it.Yet, this is the same Shalala who was OK with paying CEO Craig Dubow $4.7 million last year, largely for cutting off 6,000 employee jobs -- and their health insurance, too. Plus, Dubow's own medical plan is so rich, he gets supplemental coverage at Gannett's expense, the new shareholders proxy report shows.
Watch the Feb. 25 Rose show episode below. It's a live analysis of President Obama's health-care summit, featuring Shalala and other guest panelists. In the transcript Shalala told Rose, on reform: "We can eliminate preexisting conditions, we can eliminate caps, we can cover 30 million people who desperately need health insurance for themselves and for their families."
The show starts with former U.S. Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee:
Bad analogy. Looking for news in all the wrong places.
ReplyDeleteShalala continues to yap the Communist Manifesto while lining her pockets with corporate dough. Typical hypocrisy.
ReplyDeleteCommunists?? When did it get to be 1959 in here?
ReplyDelete"Communist Manifesto?" Somebody missed the Tea Party return bus from Saturday's DC health scare protests.
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