Edward Royce Opposes What Bothers His Big Contributors
When it comes to efforts to create meaningful health care reform, U.S. Representative Edward Royce has been a dogged opponent. He has argued in favor of preserving the current “market-based system”, and has pledged to vote against any public option.
Royce has a very particular audience when it comes to his statements opposing health care reform, and that audience is not made up of the voters in his home district. Instead, Representative Royce appears to be speaking primarily to his campaign contributors. Royce wrote an editorial against health care reform to be published in the finance publication Investor’s Business Daily, rather than for his district’s hometown newspaper.
The article was entitled Public Option Will Kill Off Competition. Competition? When Royce wrote of “competition”, he was referring to the need to defend the financial interests of the insurance companies that make huge profits from the “market-based system”.
It’s no accident that Congressman Royce is rushing to the defense of insurance companies. For his 2010 re-election campaign so far, insurance companies form Royce’s top source of donations.
