These people are worse than fire ants and kudzu combined.

[Are_grits_groceries]

Insurers admit 50,000 employees lobbying Congress to claim profits fair

Memo tells employees to keep a low profile

A spokesman for America’s Health Insurance Plans, the industry’s trade group, admitted in an article published Monday that as many as 50,000 industry employees are involved in an effort to fight back against aggressive healthcare reform.

The admission, published in the last sentence of a Wall Street Journal article, highlights the stakes of potential healthcare reform for the private health insurance industry. Insurers and investors alike are terrified at the prospect of a so-called “public option,” which would create a government-run health insurance program to compete with private insurers. Because the government plan wouldn’t have to earn a profit, the plan would be able to undercut the premiums of private firms, pressuring profit margins.

“The health-insurance industry is sending thousands of its employees to town-hall meetings and other forums during Congress’s August recess to try to counter a tide of criticism directed at the insurers and remain a player — and not an outsider — in the debate over the future of the health-care system,” the Journal’s Vanessa Fuhrmans and Avery Johnson wrote Monday.

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/24/health-insurance-employees-lobbying-congress/

This isn't astroturfing. It's paving.

[joeycola]

1. Its an employment boom.............

:thumbsdown: :shrug:

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[joeycola]

9. sorry you did not see my smiles before you

made an unnecessary cruel remark to a fellow Democrat.

[Are_grits_groceries]

15. The "sarcasm" smilie is your friend.

:sarcasm:

It may have been unnecessary, but I wasn't even near the cruel setting.

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[Jester Messiah]

7. Creating scarcity is a necessary step towards obscene profits

1. Determine a product or service that you have in plentiful supply.
2. Identify the people that need it.
3. Engineer a scarcity. Collude with your fellow "entrepreneurs" if necessary.
4. Charge whatever you like.
5. PROFIT!

[joeycola]

10. It was a tongue in cheek comment. did you see

my message. I am a Democrat who worked hard to get our Pres. elected. Sorry you did not get it, but in the future try not to jump to conclusions so fast.

[lame54]

4. it's proof that the "grassroots" line is pure bullshit

[Vickers]

5. Dude, you must work with that faith-based math.

:rofl:

[joeycola]

11. Dude, you need some smarts.

[Vickers]

12. Now you hurt my feelings.

:(

Hey, do you think Obama is circumsized?

:shrug:

[joeycola]

13. shucky darns. and

I could care less if he is circed. It is none of my business.

[Vickers]

14. Of course it isn't.

:hug:

[EC]

6. I wonder if there is an "implied" threat of losing one's job

if they don't agree to do this?

[nc4bo]

8. Someone should ask a handful of them..

I was curious about that too. Especially these days with good paying jobs, with benefits are so darned hard to come by.

[BlueCollar]

16. What's the problem?

This will be covered as an administrative expense during your next premium increase....Next mantra from the right is that the cost of fighting reform is driving up prices...