What did Robert Creamer said about the supposed question on health care issue?
As Congress reconvenes, Republicans and insurance companies are trying their hardest to frame the health care debate as President Obama’s attempt to engineer a “government takeover” of the nation’s health care system. In fact the real question is whether Congress will allow the big private health insurance companies to consolidate their current stranglehold over our health care. If you are too young for Medicare, too old for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, and not poor enough for Medicaid, you are stuck — completely relying on the whims, procedures and bureaucracy of private health insurance companies. I can’t count the number of times I have walked into a doctor’s office to find her on the phone with a private insurance company bureaucrat in some far-away city — most with no medical training — debating whether she can provide a treatment that she, the physician, thinks is necessary to protect the health of a patient. Sometimes these anonymous, unaccountable private b
As Congress reconvenes, Republicans and insurance companies are trying their hardest to frame the health care debate as President Obama’s attempt to engineer a “government takeover” of the nation’s health care system. In fact the real question is whether Congress will allow the big private health insurance companies to consolidate their current stranglehold over our health care. If you are too young for Medicare, too old for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, and not poor enough for Medicaid, you are stuck — completely relying on the whims, procedures and bureaucracy of private health insurance companies. I can’t count the number of times I have walked into a doctor’s office to find her on the phone with a private insurance company bureaucrat in some far-away city — most with no medical training — debating whether she can provide a treatment that she, the physician, thinks is necessary to protect the health of a patient. Sometimes these anonymous, unaccountable private b
