Who is… David B. Kendall?
No seriously, who the fuck is this guy?
Senior Fellow, Third Way
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Senior Fellow, Third Way
2009-presentWrote 210+ policy memos fighting Medicare for All and pitched raising Social Security's age to 70.
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Chair, Missoula County Democrats
2017-2019Faced formal complaints from a Bernie Sanders delegate over locking progressives out of county party operations.
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Senior Fellow, Progressive Policy Institute
1994-2008Backed the Breaux-Thomas plan to turn Medicare into private vouchers, later cited to defend Paul Ryan's budget.
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Capitol Hill Aide & Clinton Task Force
1986-1994Helped conservative Democrats draft insurer-friendly “managed competition” to block single-payer healthcare.
Benefactors
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$15M Anti-Single-Payer War Chest
Supplies push-polling and attack memos for Third Way's $15M campaign against Medicare for All backers.
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Big Pharma & Insurance Giants
Third Way took corporate funding from CVS Health, Johnson & Johnson, and coalitions of UnitedHealth and Cigna CEOs.
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$50K GOP-Run Insurance Shell
Backed by $50K from Blue Cross group Better Solutions for Healthcare, run out of GOP firm Targeted Victory.
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Wall Street & PhRMA Turf Wars
Governed by Wall Street trustees while pushing 340B drug limits and hospital billing caps favored by PhRMA and insurers.
Sources: Sludge, Common Dreams, Third Way, Senate Finance Committee, Heritage Foundation, Montana COPP Filings.
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