Obama Chastises "Deceptive and Dishonest" Health Insurers (Companies Would Kill Reform at Any Cost)

Source: Reuters

Obama Chastises "Dishonest" Health Insurers

By REUTERS
Published: October 17, 2009
Filed at 6:12 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama lashed out on Saturday against the "deceptive and dishonest" efforts of health insurance companies, who he said are trying to kill healthcare reform, no matter the cost to the country.

The Democratic president's push to overhaul the $2.5 trillion (1.528 trillion pound) U.S. healthcare industry, his top domestic policy priority, received a big boost this week when the Senate Finance Committee approved its version of a reform measure with the support of Republican Senator Olympia Snowe.

Many experts expect some version of a healthcare bill will pass this year, but there are still major disagreements on details including whether the measure will include a government-run insurance program, the "public option." "For the first time ever, all five committees in Congress responsible for health reform have passed a version of legislation," Obama said in his weekly radio address. "As I speak to you today, we are closer to reforming the health care system than we have ever been in history."

However, he acknowledged the overhaul still must clear significant hurdles before becoming law. "And there are still those who would try to kill reform at any cost," he said. "The history is clear: for decades rising health care costs have unleashed havoc on families, businesses and the economy. And for decades, whenever we have tried to reform the system, the insurance companies have done everything in their considerable power to stop us."

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/10/17/world/international-uk-usa-healthcare-obama.html?_r=1

GoObama please take on these parasites.

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I am glad he set the record straight.

Great job!