CIGNA Admits to Secret Funding for Anti-Health Care Reform Ads

[babsbunny]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/04/30/cigna-admits-to-secret-funding-for-anti-health-care-reform-ads/

Back in January, as the fight over health care reform was in high gear, the National Journal pinned down what most of us suspected all the time: The nation’s biggest health insurers had been funneling money—about $20 million—quietly to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to air lie-filled, scare-mongering ads about health care reform.

That revelation flew in the face of the insurance industry’s claim that it really supported health care reform, but they were just dickering over the details. While the facts about the secret funds were on the record and not disputed, the big insurers didn’t address the issue.

[DesertFlower]

1. werent' they the company

who denied the bone marrow transplant for the young girl a few years ago?

[laughingliberal]

2. I believe they were, yes. But they're all pretty much the same murderous assholes. nt

[sakabatou]

3. Fuck them!

[xchrom]

4. Quelle shock! Nt

[FrenchieCat]

5. I thought this bill was gonna benefit them?

Guess perhaps not.

[Qutzupalotl]

6. Fat lot of good it did them.

Except now we have more lies to counter.

[jgraz]

7. Actually, it *did* do them a fat lot of good

Or did we suddenly enact the Public Option when I wasn't looking?

[Qutzupalotl]

9. Are you suggesting that their money killed the public option?

I thought the PO was off the table from the get-go.

Cigna spent $20 million trying to kill a bill that passed. So yeah, I say it was wasted.

[jgraz]

10. It was off the table for Obama. Was it off for every member of Congress?

In the unlikely event that Congress passed a public option, Obama would have had no choice but to sign it. The ads were to put pressure on Congress, not Obama.

[Qutzupalotl]

11. Pressure to kill the bill

not kill the PO specifically.

[girl gone mad]

8. But they promised Obama they wouldn't do this..

in exchange for his secret guarantee to keep the public option off the table!

You can't be telling me that Obama gave up the farm for a handful of empty promises??