in 2013, will healthcare industry whistleblowers send Obama administration officials to prison for the thuggery used to pass Obamacare?
Please read this article in Forbes entitled “The Failure of Health Care Reform: An Insider’s View”.
Here is the most important paragraph:
First, the Obama administration and the Democrats who controlled Congress at the time made it clear that they would make life—and the ability to do business—hell for any insurer that fought them. I can recall talking to an insurance company executive in August of 2009, the summer of the huge rallies against ObamaCare, who told me he had a stack of red folders on his desk—demands from Democratic committee chairmen for various types of information. The message was clear: get on board with ObamaCare or expect to spend a lot of time answering committee demands, or testifying before Congress, or worse. So far I haven’t found anyone willing to speak out on the record about these strong-arm tactics—and probably won’t until 2013.
It’s the “or worse” part I’m most concerned with this morning.
Please chime in if you disagree with me on this, but I have no trouble believing the Obama administration dispatched surrogates to all the healthcare insurance companies and threatened executives to either keep quiet or flat out lie about the impact of Obamacare all of these industry experts knew would come.
I worked for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 primary campaign here in Chicago, so I saw on a daily basis what the Obama camp was capable of — they practically issued copies of the Alinsky Rules book and directed Obama acolytes to hit the streets and bully, berate, threaten, and menace anyone perceived to stand in Obama’s way. Obama won the Democrat nomination through voter fraud, intimidation, and thuggery. Because so many conservatives still possess an irrational hatred of Hillary Clinton, far too few Republicans paid any attention to what the Obama campaign did in 2008 to Hillary Clinton and her supporters…which resulted in the Obama Administration being able to behave this way once “The Golden Age of Hope and Change” began in 2009 and the EXACT SAME TACTICS were used on healthcare industry executives to pass Obamacare without so much as a peep from these people as to the disaster this bill would be for our economy.
I have no doubt Obama’s surrogates told healthcare executives they’d be branded RAAACISTS for criticizing Obamacare in any way and that their careers would be ruined. I also bet the White House approved of threats made to bankrupt any insurance company that spoke out against Obamacare — since Obama said the same thing to coal plants when he threatened their executives into silence whenever he started going on about “reforming the coal industry”.
If you are a conservative who sat the 2008 election out (or 2004 and 2000 before that, because you keep thinking sitting on your couch on election day “teaches someone a lesson”), or you voted for Obama to prove how not-racist you are, I hope you now see what happens when the sort of people who run Chicago are transplanted to Washington, DC and are allowed to translate the thuggery and Alinsky Methods so common in Chicago to the national level.
Hope!
Change!
Suckers!
I want to write to Michele Bachmann tomorrow and ask her to start talking about this issue — about just how much pressure the Obama Administration put on the healthcare insurance industry to keep quiet about what they knew regarding Obamacare’s likely impact on our economy in 2011 and beyond. Out of the declared presidential candidates so far, she’s the only one I can see shouting from the rooftops about this.
If you’re a legal expert, I’d love for you to chime in below in comments and tell us who can be sent to prison for any thuggery that bullied healthcare executives into keeping quiet about the economic disaster that is Obamacare.
Can the executives be prosecuted for keeping quiet and allowing Obamacare to tank our economy?
Who in the Obama Administration can go to prison if they knew healthcare executives were being threatened into silence regarding Obamacare’s true costs to the country?
How can we ensure the 45th President of the United States makes it mission critical to prosecute any and all Obama officials who signed off on the thuggery that succeeded in passing Obamacare?
Your thoughts and ideas are desperately needed below…because we simply need to hold people accountable for this disaster, and the only way to do that is to start planning that accountability NOW.
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I have no legal advice – just a minor nit. I think you were referring to "sitting out" the 2008 election, not the 2012 one.
If you think about it, I feel what happened is that liberal-minded people at a mid or high level management were sought out in every one of the insurance companies. They, in turn, acted just as you have suggested by pressuring the upper level decision makers by insinuating the race card into the conversation. Oncwe that happened, no one was going to actually say anything. Also, the huge lay-offs were already in progress, so no one was going to sacrifice their job by speaking up (whistleblowing).
Bami counted on this very stategy and was therefore successful. By the time the TEA Party got noticed (and not at all by the press), it was too late for those who may have spoken up because who would have believed them as that point since they did not speak up immediately. Fait accompli!
That is the same Alinsky tactic that Bami continues to count on today. Unfortunately for him, the majority of thegeneral public has gotten wise. That is why the unions have gotten more violent (Washington State Longshoremen), the gaggle of loonies are appearing on Wall Street and other cities. They are nothing more than professional agitators, druggies, and so-called students whose rich parents continue to pay they to stay away from home so the parents won't be embarrased by the very idiots they created.
Wow, Kevin. I wondered why insurance companies did not even once strike back at Obama and his sick-o-phants during the ObamaCare rush. The worse the anti-insurance company slings became, I thought, well now they'll put some ads in the paper, magazines, or maybe even a spot on TV. But, no. This is very, very, disturbing.
Hopefully there will be some sanity in the SCOTUS when they begin to hear arguments on the mandate of Obummer Care.
"The message was clear: get on board with ObamaCare or expect to spend a lot of time answering committee demands, or testifying before Congress, or worse." Isn't this what liberals whine about as "McCarthy-like tactics" when they are out of office? Perhaps we should use that same verbiage whenever we reference the manner in which Obamacare was forced onto the American people.