RYAN FAMILY FINANCIALLY BENEFITS FROM THE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY

[ProfessionalLeftist]

Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s wife, Janna, has previously worked as a lobbyist for a “roster of clients [that] included pharmaceutical and insurance clients such as Novartis, Cigna and Blue Cross/Blue Shield,” a Reuters profile reveals. Janna isn’t the only member of the family who has profited from the private health insurance industry. Campaign finance records show that Ryan has received significant funds during the 2011-2012 cycle, raking in $81,850 from pharmaceuticals and $37,468 from HMOs — $65,650 of which came from healthcare-affiliated PACs. Ryan touts a Medicare plan that would expand the role of private insurers by replacing the traditional Medicare plan with a voucher program that seniors could use to purchase private health plans.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/08/13/682111/ryan-family-financially-benefits-from-the-health-insurance-industry/

[Frustratedlady]

1. And I'm sure those insurance plans would...

1) Accept people with pre-existing conditions,

2) Not refuse coverage for those already insured, and

3) Not kick any insured off the plan because of newly discovered major illnesses.

[uponit7771]

2. wow

[AzDar]

3. ...

[Lint Head]

4. I know CIGNA from the inside and the company sends out political emails to it's employees

to get them to support Republican causes. They sold their Medicare operation to BCBS of South Carolina so they could get around the fact that a corporation with a Federal Contract cannot solicit employees to vote for a candidate and they could concentrate on lobbying Congress for laws sympathetic to them. This was while BCBS was being investigated for price fixing medical hospital stays by the DOJ.