Thomas Donahue is the President of the US Chamber of Commerce and is coordinating a multimillion dollar campaign against health care reform. He is also is on the board of Sunrise Senior Living, a nursing home. Should single payer become law nursing homes would be hit by a double whammy of forced increase of quality, specifically they would have to hire more staff, and receive lower payments. No more funneling all the money to the top and cheat old people and workers.

But is that really in the interest of members of the US Chamber of Commerce? Most of them would benefit from a single payer system, their health costs would plummet and their employees would not longer have to worry about health care.

Matt Miller

COBRA aid for layoffs is confusing

Employers are confused about the COBRA revisions, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said: Confused over whether to calculate a person’s income before or after termination; whether people taking a buyout are eligible; on how to determine a spouse’s income.

Many individuals will have similar questions — whether their termination was involuntary, for example.

“If you think it’s hard for benefits managers to understand, try the average person on the street,” said James Gelfand of the Chamber of Commerce.

Via the Chamber Pot we learn that James Gelfand think that the public won't support any more health care initiatives because we have already spent a lot of money SCHIP, COBRA, Medicaid, and some others.

He does not appear to understand that the public is a little more concerned with the TARP program. I think it is in our interest that the Chamber is so out of touch.

note - I still don't understand why the National Journal does not have someone from the single payer movement blogging on their health care discussion.

Mercury News

Daschle, the point man for Obama's campaign to revamp the health care system, supports the concept of "a government-run insurance program modeled after Medicare." It would, he says, give consumers, especially the uninsured, an alternative to commercial insurance offered by companies like Aetna, Humana and WellPoint.