Pelosi lashes out at private health insurance ‘villians’

[seafan]

Let's ROLL.


Pelosi lashes out at private health insurance ‘villians’

By Jared Allen and Jeffrey Young
Posted: 07/30/09 12:29 PM ET

A day after formally delaying a vote on a healthcare bill and having to accept a further weakening of a public option to compete with private insurers, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) lashed out at the health insurance industry and urged her members to do the same during the August recess.

“They are the villains in this,” Pelosi said of private insurers. “They have been part of the problem in a major way. They are doing everything in their power to stop a public option from happening. And the public has to know that. They can disguise their arguments any way they want, but the fact is that they don’t want the competition.”

As she prepares to send her members home for the month of August having not voted on a healthcare bill – a deadline the Speaker said she would meet for President Obama – Pelosi said she was urging those members to go on the attack against the private insurance industry to try to rally support for the strongest public option possible when negotiations resume in September.

“The more the public knows about what we’re doing, the more they support it, and especially if you’re talking about a public option, because that’s where the insurance companies are making their attack,” Pelosi said. “Our members have to go out there ready to take on a big special interest that has not made our country healthier, has made costs spiral upward, and for whom that is coming to an end.

“It’s almost immoral what they are doing,” added Pelosi, who stood outside her office long after her press conference ended to continue speaking to reporters, even as aides tried in vain to usher her inside. “Of course they’ve been immoral all along in how they have treated the people that they insure with preexisting conditions, you know, the litany of it all.”

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In recent days, Obama has also ratcheted up his rhetoric against the insurance industry.

“The truth is we have a system today that works well for the insurance industry, but it doesn't always work well for you,” Obama said at a Wednesday town hall meeting in Raleigh, N.C. “What we need, and what we will have when we pass these reforms, are health insurance consumer protections to make sure that those who have insurance are treated fairly and insurance companies are held accountable.”

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[Canuckistanian]

1. Nice words from Pelosi

Now let's see if she if she can back it up in the House.

[rocktivity]

2. "They" are the villians? YOU have to power to put them out of business, Nancy!

You can also prevent them from taking a summer recess until you get you want. But do you have the will?

We can make this a long, hot miserable summer for everyone involved.

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rocktivity

[Winterblues]

3. They are only trying to protect their interests, the real villains in this

are the Blue Dog Democrats. Those that claim to represent the people but in reality represent the Insurance Industry. If she truly feels this is so important she should start campaigning against those Blue Dogs right now and go on record that she support Primary Challenges and then do whatever she can to limit their actions in Committees.