From this morning's Earlybird:
• "Obama administration officials are ramping up their outreach to financial industry representatives ahead of their expected announcement next week for sweeping new regulations," The Hill reports. "After a round of meetings last week with industry lobbyists, officials at the White House and Treasury are slated to meet with insurance industry CEOs on Wednesday and insurance trade association representatives on Thursday, two industry sources said on Monday."
• "The Obama administration's ethics chief said Monday that newly tightened restrictions on oral communication between federal officials and those seeking a share of the $787 billion economic stimulus package will ensure that grants and contracts only flow to the most deserving applicants," CongressDailyAM (subscription) reports. "But, said Norm Eisen, White House special counsel for ethics and government reform, it is premature to view the rules as a prototype for a larger regulatory overhaul of lobbying in the nation's capital."
• "The health insurance lobby Monday proposed mandatory, industrywide paperwork standardization to reduce healthcare providers' administrative loads as part of a broader effort to drastically cut costs and help pay for healthcare overhaul," CongressDailyAM (subscription) reports. "America's Health Insurance Plans proposed standardizing claims submissions, eligibility, claims status, payment, and remittance forms and putting it all online in regional or state portals that would act as a one-stop shop for healthcare providers and eliminate the need for actual paper. The Web sites are starting off as pilot projects in Ohio and New Jersey this summer."
Benjamin Cole
Thursday, March 3, 2011
The health insurance lobby Monday proposed mandatory, industrywide paperwork standardization to reduce healthcare providers' administrative loads as part of a broader effort to drastically cut costs and help pay for healthcare overhaul. Redirect Virus
Mike Jones
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
"Obama administration officials are ramping up their outreach to financial industry representatives ahead of their expected announcement next week for sweeping new regulations," The Hill reports. "After a round of meetings last week with industry lobbyists, officials at the White House and Treasury are slated to meet with insurance industry CEOs on Wednesday and insurance trade association representatives on Thursday, two industry sources said on Monday." Mike @ excessive sweating and how to stop excessive sweating
bobf
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Sound like U.S. political system is styll a "Lobbyocracy" under the Democratic Obama regime.
How about holding publicly-televised meetings with representatives of public interest consumer groups, rank-and-file labor union members, African-American civil rights movement groups and U.S. voters who have lost their homes or their jobs as a result of the sub-prime mortgage crisis turned-economic depression which the financial industry executives helped create--before letting financial industry lobbyists help write the "sweeping new regulations" behind closed doors?