THE BIG FIVE AGAINST HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM

The Prominent Organizations against health insurance reform :


FREEDOMWORKS, a Washington-based advocacy group headed by former House majority
leader Richard Armey (R-Tex.) FreedomWorks's major financial backers have included
MetLife, Philip Morris and foundations controlled by the archconservative Scaife
family, according to tax filings and other records. Armey has come under fire from
Democrats for leading FreedomWorks while working at DLA Piper, a firm lobbying on
behalf of New Jersey pharmaceutical company Medicines Co. FreedomWorks features a
quote from Armey on its Web site: "If you are going to go ugly, go ugly early."


CONSERVATIVES FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS, an anti-reform group, now represented by Brian
Burgess of CRC Public Relations, which coordinated the "Swift Boat" attacks on Sen.
John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) in 2004. Brian Burgess confirmed that CPR has been emailing
out "town hall alert" flyers, and schedules of town hall meetings, to its mailing
list. Conservatives for Patients Rights is a front group organized in 2009 by
Richard Scott to fight U.S. president Barack Obama's proposals for health reform.
According to the Politico news site, Scott has raised $20 million to fight health
care reform. Scott previously started the for-profit hospital chain in 1987 that
later became the $23 billion Columbia/HCA. He was ousted from this post in 1997
after an FBI investigation of Columbia/HCA that led to 14 felony convictions and
$1.7 billion in criminal and civil fines for Medicare fraud.


AMERICAN LIBERTY ALLIANCE, lead by Eric Odom, 29, a Chicago Web developer who heads
a fledgling protest group. Now, drawing on more than 40,000 members via e-mail, Odom
tracks hundreds of planned health-care protests by Zip code and uses Facebook and
Twitter to link up activists. Earlier this month, he hosted a conference call with
more than 200 participants.


AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY, an anti-tax and anti-regulation group known for opposing
smoking restrictions and for trying to cast doubt on global warming. The group
launched a project called "Patients First" in June and has been conducting bus tours
around the country to drum up opposition to the health-care legislation.
Public records show that the group is heavily funded by the Koch Family Foundations,
a major contributor to conservative causes headed by two brothers who control Koch
Industries, a Kansas-based oil-and-gas conglomerate. David H. Koch serves as board
chairman of the Americans for Prosperity foundation. Americans for Prosperity
brought a "Patients First" bus emblazoned with a giant red hand and the slogan:
"Hands Off Our Health Care!"

Coming in last but not least, The REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE, (the party of no, we lost, so we are against everything those dirty socialists are doing !)