I'll tell you why.
Because the insurance industry owns Congress, and because the insurance industry buys itself protection.
Roger Clemons and major league baseball need to wise up. They need to take a cue from the insurance industry playbook. They need to pay up in order to avoid Congressional scrutiny. When you buy Congress, as the insurance industry has demonstrated, Congress leaves you alone.
I love baseball, we all like baseball. Baseball is a wonderful American past time.
I gather some baseball players may be cheating. They've been accused of using performance enhancing drugs. This is not playing by the rules.
George Mitchell, a former Senator, chaired a commission which leveled these charges.
Why isn't George Mitchell chairing a commission looking into how the insurance industry cheats, swindles and defrauds millions of Americans day after day after day?
Why is Congress investigating baseball players who may have violated the rules, but ignoring the documented criminal activity of the insurance industry?
Americans are dying at the hands of this outlaw industry. Why isn't George Mitchell or Tom Daschle or some other elder statesman, chairing a commission to reveal the entire ugly and loathsome truth to the American people about the for-profit insurance industry?
Why isn't the CEO of CIGNA, H. Edward Hanway being hauled before Congress to explain the death of Nataline Sarkisyan?
Why do the American people have to fend for themselves against this murderous industry? Where are the regulators?
Why do we see headlines and stories like this?
Congress Calls Clemens and Trainer to Testify
WASHINGTON - The star pitcher Roger Clemens, his former personal trainer Brian McNamee and three others are being asked to testify under oath before a congressional committee at a hearing Jan. 16.
In addition to Clemens, the House Oversight Committee is also calling Andy Pettitte, Chuck Knoblauch and Kirk Radomski, the committee announced Friday. Radomski is the former Mets clubhouse attendant who admitted distributing performance-enhancing drugs to dozens of major league players.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
Why will we never see a slightly different New York Times headline, something like this?
Congress Calls CIGNA CEO and Medical Director to Testify
Why has Congress abandoned the American people?
Go back and re-read the diary if you can't answer these question.
When will public rage reach the tipping point?