White House Regulars: Health Insurance, Pharma, Unions

Enough already about the White House gate crashers. What we’re really interested in is the key health-care players who came to the Obama White House this year by invitation.

As it happens, the administration just released a bunch of names from its visitor list for the first several months of the year — you can search a nicely sortable list on the White House Web site.

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Several health-care power brokers were frequent guests, as were leaders of a few business groups that have been deeply involved in the health-care debate, the WSJ notes. Here’s a list of a few regulars, and how many times they visited.

• Karen Ignani, America’s Health Insurance Plans: Eight Visits
• Dennis Rivera, health-care chair, SEIU: 10 Visits
• Billy Tauzin, PhRMA: 11 Visits
• John Castellani, the Business Roundtable: Eight Visits
• Tom Donohue, U.S. Chamber of Commerce: 12 Visits

Here’s more coverage of the visitor lists from the Washington Post, New York Times and Politico.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

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