Dennis Kucinich

Kucinich Forces Insurance Executives to Admit Responsibility for Patient Deaths

September 17, 2009 by Ohio Daily Blog

Congressman Dennis Kucinich hit the nail square on the head today in a hearing held by the Domestic Policy Subcommittee. In the hearing, Kucinich asked executives from each of the nation's six largest health insurance providers (United Healthcare, Wellpoint, Aetna, Humana, Cigna and the Health Care Service Corporation) a simple question:

“Do you believe that a health insurer’s refusal to pay for a patient’s cancer treatment can directly or indirectly cause harm or death to that person?”

Each health insurance company executive answered “Yes.”

Correct us if this we're wrong, but doesn't that sink a major hole in the argument supporters of the BoehnerCare Plan (aka "status quo") use to attack HR3200 or any Democratic proposal (that the both public option or single payer approaches would delay care to people who need it)?

The GOP argues that the system isn't broken, but here are six industry executives saying, "Yep. Broken."

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December 29, 2008 by admin

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September 17, 2008 by admin

Dennis Kucinich on the US Constitution (via Blog)

September 17, 2008 by admin

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[UPDATED]: Paul Hackett is a hack, and it's time we acknowledge that

September 12, 2008 by buckeyestateblog

Nobody likes a good narrative better than me, but at somepoint the truth has to trump the legend (look out, Gov. Palin).

Paul Hackett is a darling of the DailyKos crowd and many Ohio progressive bloggers , even though politically, he's much more conservative that they are.  The sole reason for this is because of his performance in the low turnout special election in which he almost defeated Jean Schmidt to fill the remainder of Rob Portman's term.

The very next year, after flirting with running for the Senate instead of a rematch, Hackett dropped out of politics almost entirely.  The Democratic nominee, Dr. Victoria Wulsin, actually outperformed Hackett and came even closer to defeating Schmidt as an incumbent in a regular election than Hackett did in an open seat race during a low turnout special election.

Beyond that, he said that Sherrod Brown was too liberal to defeat Mike DeWine.  And was proven wrong.  He then endorsed Rosemary Palmer over the consensus challenger candidate to Dennis Kucinich.  Palmer performed worse than just about any other challenger.

Then Hackett decided this Spring that he had to denigrate Wulsin's chances this cycle.  As a result, I said on this blog that I was officially done with Hackett.