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Heritage Reaches Out to Bloggers
Just got an email from the Heritage Foundation, whom I’ve never contacted through my personal email account. Looks like they’re trying to pitch to bloggers on the Medicare legislation being haggled out in Congress:
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Subject: What’s wrong with the Medicare drug bills?
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Content-Length: 776Let The Heritage Foundation count the ways … in “Medicare Maladies,” a daily feature highlighting the dangers of the Medicare bills now being negotiated in conference committee.
If you’re blogging about Medicare reform, you’ll find the “Medicare Maladies” series a lively brief on the proposals now being deliberated.
Each “Malady” puts one aspect of the debate under the microscope and in plain English. No. 3, for example, shows how many seniors will actually end up paying MORE for drugs than under the current proposals. Some “reform,” eh?
Meanwhile, No. 10 examines why Congress moved to exempt federal retirees (including retiredf members of Congress) from the proposed “benefit” they want to give everyone else.
You can check ‘em all out at http://www.heritage.org/research/healthcare/mm.cfm.
And, if you’d like to have future Maladies shipped straight to your terminal, subscribe by e-mail medicaremaladies@heritage.org or call Andrew Blasko at (202) 608-6149.
Interesting. I’m not sure where they got my email (not like it’s a state secret), but I’m curious as to why they thought I do this kind of stuff.
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Well, this makes about as much sense as the solicitation I got from the Republican National Committee:
http://www.jdlasica.com/blog/archives/2003_06_05.html#000641
Well, maybe a little more sense: I did occasionally blog congressional stuff, but it wasn’t much in the way of policy and I’ve hardly paid much attention since leaving CQ. But still, you’d only have to look at The Scoop to see that it’s not a politically-oriented site.