http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiizrVLDbAM Photo taken from Matt Salmon lobbying for World Peace in 2009

Obamacare and Matt Salmon Fact Check & Timeline

March 2009 Matt Salmon joins Policy Impact Communications as Executive Vice President and as a Member of the Board of Directors

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20090312005733/en/Congressman-Matt-Salmon-Joins-Policy-Impact-Communications

Matt Salmon's clients included Millennium: Takeda Oncology. Millennium paid Policy Impact Communications $10K a month for lobbying on a variety of issues including heath care reform. disclosures.house.gov

June 2009 Lundbeck Pharmaceuticals signed a new lobbying contract with Policy Impact Communications. Matt Salmon was named one of the four lobbyists on the contract. PIC was paid $10K a month to lobby on health care reform, importation and Medicare issues. disclosures.house.gov

June 22, 2009 The clients Matt Salmon represented are part of Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers Association (PhRMA), which struck a deal with President Obama and the Whitehouse.

According to Fox News - "Obama announced an agreement with PhRMA on June 22 to achieve $80 billion in savings as part of his reform agenda" http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/19/consulting-firm-tied-white-house-given-millions-health-care-ad-campaign/
Matt Salmon's clients Lundbeck Inc. and Takeda are dues paying members of PhRMA and support the Obamacare agenda. http://phrma.org/about/member-companies

July 14, 2009 The first round of Obamacare is introduced in the form of H.R. 3200, America's Affordable Health Choice Act of 2009. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr3200

August 8, 2009 PhRMA teams with several interests group, including the SEIU (the union that called for the boycott of Arizona for SB1070), to spend $150 M to air commercials to air in swing states. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/19/consulting-firm-tied-white-house-given-millions-health-care-ad-campaign/

The commercials: http://www.youtube.com/user/HealthyEconomyNow
"The coalitions are a strange-bedfellows mix of business, labor and health care groups including PhRMA, the American Medical Association, the SEIU and the liberal group FamiliesUSA." http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26240.html

July - August 2009 Matt Salmon starts to lobby on H.R. 3200 (Obamacare), President Obama's top legislative priority, after Matt's clients have endorsed it.

Lundbeck disclosure statement - "HR 3200 - Access to and coverage of Specialty Pharmaceuticals, Removal of patient life caps and special tiering of copayments."
The removal of life caps was a part of Obamacare http://waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/111/hcare/topline_final.pdf
Takeda disclosure statement - "The Affordable Health Choice Act" - that is the title name to H.R. 3200 (Obamacare). disclosures.house.gov

July - September 2009 The National Debate Raged On regarding Obamacare throughout late summer

Governor Sarah Palin provides her thoughts on parts of the bill that was covered by cbsnews.com. According to Governor Palin, "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care." The article then goes on to say, "The 'death panel' she conjures is a reference to the Advance Care Planning Consultation section on page 425 of the H.R. 3200, Democratic House bill , according to Palin spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton." http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-5226795-503544.html

Obamacare, HR 3200, "The Affordable Healthcare Choices Act of 2009, has created a firestorm in the last few weeks... finally passing through committee last Friday, with a lot of compromises and a lot pleading from committee Chairman Henry Waxman and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. What the controversy is all about is that Fiscal and Conservative Republicans don't want the bill because anymore government spending and taxation would reak more havoc on the economy putting America further into debt. On the other end of the spectrum, Liberal Democrats want the bill to go further than it does right now and provide that 'single-payer' system they have been dreaming about." http://www.examiner.com/article/hr-3200-a-trojan-horse-for-single-payer-health-care

Through March 2010 Matt Salmon's listed lobbying activities remain unchanged through Q4 2009 and Q1 2010. In sum, from June of 2009 through March of 2010, Policy Impact was paid $190,000 to lobby on Obamacare. disclosures.house.gov

June 2010 Matt Salmon continued to represent both companies as they signed contracts with his new firm, Upstream Consulting. disclosures.house.gov

Research shows H.R. 3200 was one of the most heavily lobbied bills with over 3,000 lobbyist representing 964 organizations lobbying on it. http://firststreetresearch.cqpress.com/2012/04/19/are-lobbyists-and-the-public-interested-in the-same-bills

2011 Matt Salmon's 2012 congressional campaign received a $1,000 donation from Michael Eging, an executive at Millenniun: Takeda Oncology. www.fec.gov

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