Sebelius And Health Care Exec Clash At AHIP Conference

[deminks]

This is why we love her in Kansas. Now she is fighting the Chamber of Commerce lackeys and their big bucks fight against the American people.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/sebelius-and-health-care-exec-clash-at-ahip-conference.php?ref=fpb

They were like yin and yang, oil and water. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and America's Health Insurance Plans CEO Karen Ignagni couldn't agree on much today when they debated health care reform at AHIP's conference in downtown Washington, D.C.

Sebelius challenged to insurers to embrace the Obama administration's health care reform efforts before it's too late. Directly after she finished speaking, Ignagni took to the mics to challenge the administration to abandon its efforts to reform the way health insurance works in America -- before it's too late.

The lines appeared to be drawn.

Sebelius appeared before AHIP to ask the insurance companies for their help anyway.

"You have a choice," she said. "You can choose to continue your opposition to reform."

Or, she said, there's the other option. "You can choose to take the millions of dollars you have stored away for your next round of ads to kill meaningful reform, and use them to start giving Americans some relief from their skyrocketing premiums," Sebelius said. "Instead of spending your energy attacking the parts of the President's proposal you don't like, you can use it to strengthen the parts you do."

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Bless her. She stood up for me today.

[gratuitous]

1. Attaway, Secretary Sebelius!

Another response would have been, "Go ahead, Ms. Ignagni, tell us what value the insurance companies add to the system of health care delivery. I'm willing to wait for an hour or five."

[Froward69]

2. K&R

:kick:

the unrecers are about in force today.

[Supersedeas]

3. Wonder what CNN, ABC, FOX and other National Media cronies think about money designated for

more Advertising dollars going to help regular Americans instead???? Hmmm.

[bigtree]

4. rec

:kick:

[blue neen]

5. We're proud of you, Secretary Sebelius!

:thumbsup:

[laughingliberal]

6. If they strengthened the parts of the legislation they do like any more what the hell is left? nt