Corporations and influence

Thanks to Bill for sending this article along.

I would like to encourage folks to read Corporate Medicare by Joel Bleifus. This is an excellent article that points to the relationship of the corporate hand and the Medicare bill. However, Bleifuss goes well beyond the issue of Medicare to address much larger issues. Issues such as the erosion of democracy when corporations exert their influence, and how corporations are enabled in their participation through campaign finance reform. This is a very short article, but brings up a lot of good points.