Why oh Why Does the Media Ignore AMA, AHA, ANA, AARP & Wendell Potter?
Posted by Carolan Gladden at 9/16/2009 8:20 PM 
Categories: Media, Health, Politics, Ideas, Current Events
Categories: Media, Health, Politics, Ideas, Current Events
All day long the bleating of the media about the Baucus Bill -- and not one word about the momentous House hearing on C-SPAN yesterday. In that hearing an amazing panel of health care executives spoke plainly about House bill 3200 and why it is good. And they spoke just as emphatically about why the Baucus bill is nothing but B.S.
This panel consisted of not only the President of the American Medical Association, the President of the American Hospital Association, the President of the American Nurses Association, The Representative of 40 million American Association of Retired People (AARP) members but also the magnificent turncoat Wendell Potter, former VP of Communications of Cigna -- one of the largest for-profit health benefits organizations -- as Potter says, "These companies no longer call themselves insurance companies. They do not want to insure anybody or anything. They just want to satisfy Wall Street by making money. Any way they can."
Never before have so many powerful organizations come together in support of health care reform. And every American should hear what these honorable people have to say. They all agree that the health care system must be reformed. They all agree that negotiating prices of medicines should be part of the deal. They all agree that having a "public option" is mandatory to force for-profit companies to be competitive.
Plus they all shoot down the possibility that "cooperatives" could satisfy that need.
And Potter, who one day saw the light after living high and mighty at Cigna, now reveals the nefarious attitudes in the for-profit companies. And he explains over and over that neither Congress nor we the people nor indeed the President can believe what the for-profit companies promise.
We must dump the Baucus bill that once again would benefit companies and embrace House bill 3200!
Positively,
Carolan
This panel consisted of not only the President of the American Medical Association, the President of the American Hospital Association, the President of the American Nurses Association, The Representative of 40 million American Association of Retired People (AARP) members but also the magnificent turncoat Wendell Potter, former VP of Communications of Cigna -- one of the largest for-profit health benefits organizations -- as Potter says, "These companies no longer call themselves insurance companies. They do not want to insure anybody or anything. They just want to satisfy Wall Street by making money. Any way they can."
Never before have so many powerful organizations come together in support of health care reform. And every American should hear what these honorable people have to say. They all agree that the health care system must be reformed. They all agree that negotiating prices of medicines should be part of the deal. They all agree that having a "public option" is mandatory to force for-profit companies to be competitive.
Plus they all shoot down the possibility that "cooperatives" could satisfy that need.
And Potter, who one day saw the light after living high and mighty at Cigna, now reveals the nefarious attitudes in the for-profit companies. And he explains over and over that neither Congress nor we the people nor indeed the President can believe what the for-profit companies promise.
We must dump the Baucus bill that once again would benefit companies and embrace House bill 3200!
Positively,
Carolan
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