Insurance execs to testify in final healthcare push

[SpartanDem]

House Dems to twice call insurance execs to testify in final healthcare push
By Jared Allen - 10/09/09 05:44 PM ET

House Democrats will once again call executives of the nation’s largest health insurance companies before Congress to defend their business practices, just as party leaders make a final push for legislation aimed at forcing private insurers to compete with a government-run healthcare program.

Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) will hold a hearing on Thursday, Oct. 15, on the issue of “underinsurance,” what the pair described as the phenomenon of being “insured but not covered.”

No witness list was announced. But Waxman and Stupak have been investigating the practices of the private insurance industry – which the two Democrats believe amount to unfair treatment of consumers and patients – for months, and have already forced dozens of companies to provide volumes of documents on profits, executive compensation, and other practices that Democrats believe illustrate why drastic changes are needed in determining how Americans receive healthcare coverage.

And the two senior Democrats have managed to create a number of uncomfortable moments for the executives called to testify on behalf of their companies.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/62495-house-dems-to-twice-call-insurance-execs-to-testify-in-final-push-for-healthcare-bill

[brentspeak]

1. Hopefully, these same insurance execs will one day be testifying in front of juries

[napi21]

2. I wonder if this will be on cspan, at least cspan3? I really

want to see and hear what they say!

[benld74]

3. create a number of uncomfortable moments for the executives?

LIKE the executives could really give a hard sh*t about a few measly uncomfortable moments.
AFTER ALL the posturing, speech giving by both sides and ALL parties involved there will be NARY a question that is ahrd hitting enough to even fill a page.
It will turn out to be a RREAL reality show for all to see.

[DailyGrind51]

4. When they are all in one place, arrest the bastards!