Obama: “I Hate Insurance Companies; Let’s Give Them $336 Billion”
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010For a man who supposedly hates insurance companies, President Obama sure has a way of showing his disgust with them. Frankly, I wish President Obama would show his disgust for me in similar fashion. Here’s what ABC is reporting:
“(Health Insurers) will keep on doing this for as long as they can get away with it. This is no secret,” the president said. “They’re telling their investors this ‘We are in the money. We are going to keep on making big profits even though a lot of folks are going to be put under hardship,’” the President told supporters at a stop in Pennsylvania today.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, meanwhile, wrote to insurance company executives demanding that they justify premium hikes.
Neither mentioned that the Senate health reform bill, which is the basis for Democrats’ last best chance at comprehensive reform, would give the insurance companies millions of new customers required by law to buy health insurance. It would also require insurers to cover everyone, regardless of age, gender or pre-existing condition. (more…)
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