Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Circus Chicago

clipped from proteinwisdom.com

Obama is going to talk about “moral imperatives” and leave the bare-knuckles, Chicago-style wiseguy bullying to Henry Waxman

Two senior House Democrats are seeking a raft of financial figures from health-insurance companies, upping the ante as President Obama and his allies push to make the insurance industry’s flaws a centerpiece of their campaign for health-care reform.

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), chairman of the panel’s subcommittee on oversight and investigations, wrote letters Monday to more than 50 of the nation’s largest insurers informing them that the committee “is examining executive compensation and other business practices in the health insurance industry.” They requested detailed information on the compensation packages of the companies’ highest-paid employees

This is unconscionable.

While I hold no brief for insurance companies per se, most of this information is already available