LOBBYIST ALTMIRE: CONGRATULATIONS! YOUR PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR PRESIDENT HAVE BEEN CAPTURED BY THE ABLE WASHINGTON POST TEAM! WE ARE STILL WAITING TO SEE HOW ALTMIRECARE WILL CUT MEDICAL COSTS?

"Altmire, more than most in Congress, understood the intricacies of health-care policy.  As a congressional aide in the 1990s, he had worked on Clinton's failed effort and later became a hospital executive.  He opposed the bill (Healthcare) in November (2009) in part because it would not have gone far enough to control rising medical costs.  Obama saw that as his opening, pointing out to Altmire that the new version would create a Medicare cost-cutting commission.  Altmire reminded Obama that he had been to  (Altmire's district), a conservative region where Republicans often win and the Roman Catholic bishop holds considerable sway...."    from LANDMARK: THE INSIDE STORY OF AMERICA'S NEW HEALTH-CARE LAW AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR US ALL  by the staff of The Washington Post