While 14,000 Americans lose their healthcare each day, the health insurance industry is spending $1.4 million a DAY to buy the votes they need to stop healthcare reform. Apparently they are not only buying votes from Blue Dog Democrats, there are reports that the vicious mobs who are disrupting healthcare town halls are being funded by surrogates for the healthcare industry as well.
Why shouldn't the health insurance industry do what they can to stop healthcare reform? It is in their interests to do so. Billions of dollars of profit are at stake for them and they clearly will not go down without a fight. And so, they have whipped up a frenzy of distortions and outright lies to stop healthcare reform at any cost. They have energized the 'teabaggers.'
The sad reality is that the 'teabaggers' don't have a clue that they are slaves to the health insurance industry.
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