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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (10762)	10/27/2009 2:59:15 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

_"I'm very pleased that (Democratic leaders) will be talking, too, about the immoral profits being made by the insurance industry and how those profits have increased in the Bush years." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., ..... _"Health insurance companies are willing to let the bodies pile up as long as their profits are safe." A MoveOn.org ad. Personally, I consider the people saying thing like the above to be immoral lying bastards. Health insurers posted a 2.2 percent profit margin last year...... But were the Bush years golden ones for health insurers? Not judging by profit margins, profit growth or returns to shareholders. The industry's overall profits grew only 8.8 percent from 2003 to 2008, and its margins year to year, from 2005 forward, never cracked 8 percent. What? Could Nancy Pelosi be FOS? Yes. She lied about the CIA interrogation briefings. She's lying about insurance companies. Just a despicable person. What a person to head the ruling party in Congress.