Insurers Fight Health Care Reform with Dirty Tricks, But Public Supports Obama Plan
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More proof out this week that the insurance industry’s sweet words for health care reform are dripping with hypocrisy. America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), which has been pushing a sham health care reform campaign masquerading as a grassroots initiative, now seems to be using dirty tricks and outright falsehoods in an attempt to keep some of their most profitable programs.
Jason Rosenbaum writes on Health Care For America Now! how Ken Johnson of the (New Bedford, Mass.) Eagle-Tribune noticed that AHIP was sending letters to newspapers in Massachusetts under the names of real seniors—who are unaware their names are being used—demanding that their representatives in Congress protect the Medicare Advantage health care program.
