Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Early Morning Swim: Insurance Industry Whistleblower Wendell Potter Discusses Health Care Bill on Countdown from Firedoglake

 

On a related note, to the "only the nutroots hates the bill" crowd — the nurse's union does too.

"It is tragic to see the promise from Washington this year for genuine, comprehensive reform ground down to a seriously flawed bill that could actually exacerbate the health-care crisis and financial insecurity for American families, and that cedes far too much additional power to the tyranny of a callous insurance industry," says National Nurses Union co-president Karen Higgins, RN.

"Sadly," adds Higgins, "we have ended up with legislation that fails to meet the test of true health-care reform, guaranteeing high quality, cost effective care for all Americans, and instead are further locking into place a system that entrenches the choke-hold of the profit-making insurance giants on our health. If this bill passes, the industry will become more powerful and could be beyond the reach of reform for generations."

Higgins obviously doesn't read enough Ezra Klein.

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