Green Shoots of Transparency at the White House Today

I just noticed today that there was a big meeting at the White House with the big, evil insurers, organized labor, physicians, big pharma and more.  They were all there to talk health care with President Obama’s advisers – and the public actually knows who was there representing what special interest.

My God, there are green shoots of transparency taking hold at 1600.

Remember the health care debacle of the Clinton Era?  Hillary and Ira’s top secret health fest went nowhere.  Or, how about Darth Cheney’s creation of a national energy non-policy in secret.  I don’t think we know even now which oil companies were at the table for that one.

The White House Press Office has actually posted this list of participants, a piece of correspondence, and a “fact” sheet about the meeting.

Let’s hope this keeps up and spreads to the world of high finance and government bailouts.