Democrats continue attacks on insurance industry, may hold hearings

babylonsister

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Thu Aug-20-09 06:11 PM
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Democrats continue attacks on insurance industry, may hold hearings

Democrats continue attacks on insurance industry
By Jared Allen
Posted: 08/20/09 05:57 PM

Just because the message didn�t work as well as originally planned over the August recess, House Democrats aren�t finished with their efforts to vilify the private health insurance industry.

Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) have made a written request to the nation�s 52 largest health insurers, demanding documents related to their executive compensation packages as well as to their expenditures on corporate retreats and conferences.

Democratic aides familiar with the committee said leaders have not closed the door on a series of high-profile hearings this fall, in which top insurance CEOs would be called before the committee to explain hundreds of millions in expenditures on salaries and lavish corporate events.

For Democrats, such hearings could be a chance to reclaim the upper hand in the healthcare reform debate after an August recess in which they�ve battled through rowdy town halls to find audiences sympathetic to their argument that the private health care industry is profiting on the backs of patients.

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http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/democrats-continue-attacks-on-insurance-industry-2009-08-20.html

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bbinacan

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Thu Aug-20-09 06:20 PM
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1. Does Waxman have

any authority to demand these documents?

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babylonsister

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Thu Aug-20-09 06:21 PM
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3. I imagine he wouldn't have asked for them if he didn't feel

he had the authority to do so. He is chairman of a committee heavily involved in health care reform.

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bbinacan

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Thu Aug-20-09 06:52 PM
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6. Much of this information

can be gathered from SEC filings.

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Xipe Totec

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Thu Aug-20-09 06:20 PM
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2. Now we're cooking

Or roasting...

Call them on the carpet. Let the public hear how much of their hard spent money is going into the pockets of greedy insurance executives.

Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered.

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David Zephyr

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Thu Aug-20-09 06:22 PM
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4. Cooking with Crisco!

Oh, yes! This is how you do it!

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ddeclue

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Thu Aug-20-09 06:23 PM
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5. Umm how can you "villify" someone who is already a villian?

All you can really do is expose their villany.

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