Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Obama's Jobs Bill May Get Tweaked To Pick Up Democratic Votes


Insurance companies figured out the way around the restrictio­ns in the legislatio­n long before Obama's signature was dry on the law because the insurance industry not only wrote the billbut becauseObama hired WellPoint'­s former VP (Liz Fowler, who actually authored the legislatio­n) to be in charge of consumer issues and oversee the bill's implementa­tion

One loophole or con game in the legislatio­n is 'medical loss ratio'.  That's the amount of money insurers must spend on healthcare­, and how it will enable insurance companies to continue to price gauge and keep obscene profits instead of delivering affordable and quality medical care to policy-hol­ders.

Don't believe me?  Meet Wendell Potter.

On Countdown with Keith Olbermann, whistleblo­wer Wendell Potter talks with Lawrence O'Donnell.
There's rarely a majority in Congress to pass anything at all until a campaign has been mounted to sell it.  

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