STM publishers sounded like the health insurance companies

"Those who run NIH didn't oppose free public access to tax-supported research. The objections came from the scholarly publishers that spent big bucks and twisted arms all over Washington to prevent access to the research unless we paid them for it, too....We didn't start the war with the publishers, and it took us years of abuses and declining revenues to organize to defend against them. As librarians reacted to these assaults on their budgets, publishers raised their rhetoric to new levels of shrill obfuscation. They began to sound like the health insurance companies that fought health-care reform...."