ABC's World News Tonight covers the controversy over Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) asking Medicare to investigate Humana for sending letters to its customers about potential Medicare Advantage cuts under Democrat health care proposals.
The segment features Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's objections to such heavy-handed tactics restricting speech.
I couldn’t agree more Xsleeper. Great video.
This should concern every single American! For this administration to
impose a gag order on a private company against contacting it’s own
customers is UNCONSTITUIONAL! Where will this end, will it end or just get
worse with every passing day of this administration? I have never seen a
U.S. administration ever do anything like this before, it is very
hitleresque to me!
If Humana has any guts, they will step up their mailings. What a bunch of
thugs who work for Obama. A one term president if I’ve ever seen one.
Monopolies huh? Why do you think they have monopolies. The govt refusal to
discuss more on that issue is alarming to me. They would rather pass more
taxes and mandates then actually break down the barriers to healthcare.
They are looking for a fund raiser via tax payer. No company has incentive
to change their practices until the consumers demand it by the power of
their dollar. To bad the govt wont allow for consumers to actually use
their buying power by allowing cross state buys.
Oh, Humana Insurance Company is just worried about your health benifits.
Would you hire a crocodille to babysit? Insurnance monopolies are worse.
They’re serial murderers. What would you call monopolies that are
responsible for 18,000 of our neighbors dying every year? Do you know
anyone who has no healthcare and has a serious illness or just getting old?
If you said no, than I suggest you start caring for others.
Humana to repay government $14.5 million for double-dipping Medicare fees
I think you guys need to relax. The end of the clip reveals the real crux
of the matter: HHS is looking into whether the mailings ILLEGALLY appear to
be official communications from Medicare. It appears that the HHS is not,
as McConnell claims, telling companies they can’t communicate with their
customers; it’s saying they can’t pretend to be Medicare.
Stupid
Max Baucus is trying as hard as he can to derail health care reform for his
insurance company sponsors. You won’t find other dems pulling stupid stunts
like this one.
HHS issued the gag order, and HHS will be the ones distributing benefits as
the ‘Health Information Exchange’ under the plan. That would be a conflict
of interests as far as their supposed investigation goes. And they’ve just
voted to nix publication of the bill – WHAT a surprise.
I never thought I would see such a thing in the US. This administration is
truly dangerous. This is straight out of Hugo Chavez’s playbook.