On the other hand, much of the pro-"reform" stuff is coming from organizations and people that have a vested interest in a government takeover of the health care industry and the vast amounts of power and loot that would gravitate away from hundreds of insurance companies and providers to a single central government authority.

So what makes their ideas any less suspicious?

It's amazing how immune liberals are to the concept that anything other than a corporation can act out of greedy self-interest.

Or to put it another way, why is government thugs shoving socialism down our throats a more respectable occupation than "lobbying?"

I do understand why liberals think businesses and corporations should sit down, shut up, and wear their chains like good little serfs, and not be allowed to in any way (lobbying, advertising, or policital speech) influence the political forces that are trying to enslave them. Unions, on the other hand, no problem.