ABC News On Sen. McConnell, Humana, Health Care, And Free Speech
abc’s World News Tonight covers thе controversy over Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) asking Medicare tο investigate Humana fοr carriage letters tο іtѕ customers аbουt potential Medicare Advantage cuts under Democrat health care proposals. Thе segment features Senate Republican Leader Mitch mcconnell’s objections tο such heavy-handed tactics restricting speech.
Whatever happened to people like Churchill, Kennedy, FDR, Patton and other people who really stood for something? Has the gene pool gotten so poor in this world that there aren’t anymore fantastic people left? All I see are a few courageous loners out there being outnumbered largely by nutless, testosterone free sissies who sue to get their way or whine and bitch to get their way. This is disgusting, the health of our United States.
This is NOT a demo vs. rep thing at all for me, this is about corruption, idiocy, disregard for the citizens and disregard for our rights as a free nation by corrupt institutions, corrupt health check practices and corrupt politicians on either side of the fence.
I’m not rich by any means of the imagination regarding material wealth. The thing is that we need REAL people who know how hard it can be to make it these days in office instead of this rich pampered ball-less greedy wastes of DNA.
What kind of communist retards can agree with the pure load of BS in D.C. these days? Bush sucked but this is as terrible if not worse, okay we don’t have Cheney but still.
What exactly is it going to take for the margin of the public to organize, mobilize and take back our motherfucking country and our Constitutional rights?
You know, I don’t care anymore. I’m going to say what is on my mind these days. It’s a damned shame to be worried to post something for dread of being hunted the hell down by government goons. If all this BS doesn’t stop I can see radicals appearance out of the woodwork stopping it by force if need be. We are at a snail’s pace being stripped of our Constitutional rights and tbh that doesn’t sit well with me at all and I’m n-o-t a radical.
I couldn’t agree more Xsleeper. Fantastic 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 head if I’ve ever seen one.
Monopolies huh? Why do you reckon 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 really 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 terrible the govt wont allow for consumers to really 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 ancient? If you said no, than I suggest you initiation caring for others.
DO NOT relax on this issue! Contact your elected officials and let them know how disturbing this is to you. Our government is quite competent of investigating these mailings in question without placing a gag order on Humana!! A stay on-up mailer would certainly resolve this issue if, in fact, a honest investigation and followup discussion with private provider determines said mailer was misleading.
Humana to repay government $14.5 million for double-dipping Medicare fees
I reckon 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.
Max Baucus is trying as hard as he can to ruin health care reform for his insurance company sponsors. You won’t find other dems pulling stupid stunts like this one.
This is terribly frightening. What thugs. I guess it’s the “Chicago Way”.
HHS issued the gag order, and HHS will be the ones distributing benefits as the ‘Health Information Exchange’ under the plot. 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 perilous. This is straight out of Hugo Chavez’s playbook.
sounds like more Alinsky thug tactics inspired by ACORN-trainer speech suppressor-in-chief Barack Obama