RawStory:
Health insurance companies deserve “a great deal of the blame” for the sometimes violent disruptions to town hall meetings on health care, says a former health insurance company executive turned whistleblower.
Wendell Potter, a former executive with health insurer Cigna who now works as the senior fellow on health care at the Center for Media and Democracy, told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that health insurance companies “are very much behind the town hall disruptions that you see and a lot of the deception that’s going on in terms of disinformation that many Americans, apparently, are believing.”
On her show Monday night, Maddow cited statistics from the Securities and Exchange Commission showing that profits at the US’s ten largest health insurance companies skyrocketed more than 400 percent between 2000 and 2007, from $2.4 billion in 2000 to $12.7 billion in 2007....* Do you know where Republican Rep. John Boehner has been?
U.S. Embassy Mongolia:
Representative John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Minority Leader, met today with the President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj and Prime Minister Bayar Sanj of Mongolia at Government House in Ulaanbaatar. He was joined by the members of the delegation which he is leading: Congressman Dan Boren (D-OK), Congressman Jo Bonner (R-AL), Congressman Dave Camp (R-MI), Congressman Tom Latham (R-IA) and Congressman Greg Walden (R-OR). The delegation discussed the sound state of U.S. – Mongolian relations.....
...Today’s meetings cap the group’s August 9 and August 10 visit to Ulaanbaatar and the surrounding countryside where the Members of Congress viewed U.S. Government funded aid projects.
Do you think that Boehner and his pals did some golfing at the Ghenghis Kahn Golf Course in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia? Does Boehner tie all his "fact-finding" trips to the location of golf courses?
* Did you know that Glenn Beck's continuing racist rants have lost him sponsors? (DailyKos)
