Rockefeller: ‘The health insurance industry is the shark that sits

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Rockefeller: ‘The health insurance industry is the shark that sits right below the water.’

Today, the White House has been hosting the Bipartisan Health Care Summit, where “the one topic that Democrats keep hammering on over and over is the problem of insurance companies refusing to cover people with preexisting conditions.” For example, during the summit today, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) ripped into the abusive behavior of insurance corporations, saying that the industry “is the shark that sits right below the water”:

ROCKEFELLER: The health insurance industry is the shark that swims just below the water and you don’t see that shark until you feel the teeth of that shark … This is the way they operate. Nobody has any oversight over them. They’re not under any anti-trust rules. They can do what they want. … This is a rapacious industry that does what it wants.

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/25/rockefeller-rips-insurers-behavior/



The “rapacious” behavior that Rockefeller condemns includes raising premiums to increase their profits, denying coverage to women who have had Caesarean section pregnancies, and rescinding coverage of customers for frivolous reasons.

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1. R'Feller - he talks the talk; doesn't walk the walk

He won't support the Public Option now that it only takes 50 votes and can actually pass via reconcillation... let alone the real solution - Medicare for All.

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2. LOOKS LIKE ROCKY IS DOING SOME DAMAGE CONTROL

PROPAGANDA. This clown is in the back pocket of the insurance cos. Yet he pretends to be fighting them.