Which Side Are You On?...Day 32

Make no mistake, the industry, despite its public assurances to be good-faith partners with the President and Congress, has been at work for years laying the groundwork for devious and often sinister campaigns to manipulate public opinion

This is an excerpt from a speech Wendell Potter, a former health insurance executive, gave recently. (Read the entire speech)

At Baron Hill's Town Hall meeting at IUS Monday, one had to be struck by the fearful reaction to health care reform exhibited by some of the opponents. It was obvious that some had been steered into opposition.

One woman asked a question about the nefarious motives of the government working against "Medicare 'Advance Plans'". The correct term is "Medicare Advantage" plans. Rep. Hill said the reason these plans need to be reined in, is because they are essentially an unnecessary subsidy to the insurance sellers. He said the subsidy amounts to about 30% of the cost of such plans, and that is picked up by the government. That subsidy puts us; the government (government of the people, by the people) that much farther in the hole when it comes to funding quality health care as a right of citizenship.

The woman asking about "advance plans" had been steered into her opposition. But by whom? And, for what reason?

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