Newt Gingrich: Sopranos-style tactics in health care
By: Newt Gingrich Examiner Columnist August 21, 2009
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Rep. Henry Waxman is making America's health insurance companies an offer they can't refuse.
Like a mafia underboss trying to face down a rival crime family, the powerful California Democratic chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee has resorted to ugly intimidation tactics with opponents of government-run health care.
In the spirit of Joe McCarthy, earlier this week, Waxman and House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak, D-MI, sent a letter to 52 of the nation's largest health insurance companies that contained a not-so-veiled threat.
Waxman and Stupak's letter demanded detailed information from health insurance companies about executive pay, corporate conferences and retreats, and other business practices.
For any employees or officers making more than $500,000 a year in the past six years, the congressmen are demanding details on salaries, bonuses, pensions and other compensation.
They're asking for a list of conferences and retreats that are paid for by insurance companies. They're also insisting that insurance companies disclose the identity of all board members and their compensation.
According to the letter, all this information must be provided by Sept. 14 as part of an investigation of "executive compensation and other business practices in the health insurance industry."
Imagine that. An investigation of health insurance compensation launched by two powerful Democratic House Committee Chairmen in the midst of a coordinated campaign to vilify health insurance companies.
As far as intimidation tactics go, this latest move by Waxman and Stupak makes the White House's effort to "flag" online political opponents look small time.
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20090821 Newt Gingrich Sopranos style tactics in health care
By: Newt Gingrich Examiner Columnist August 21, 2009
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Rep. Henry Waxman is making America's health insurance companies an offer they can't refuse.
Like a mafia underboss trying to face down a rival crime family, the powerful California Democratic chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee has resorted to ugly intimidation tactics with opponents of government-run health care.
In the spirit of Joe McCarthy, earlier this week, Waxman and House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak, D-MI, sent a letter to 52 of the nation's largest health insurance companies that contained a not-so-veiled threat.
Waxman and Stupak's letter demanded detailed information from health insurance companies about executive pay, corporate conferences and retreats, and other business practices.
For any employees or officers making more than $500,000 a year in the past six years, the congressmen are demanding details on salaries, bonuses, pensions and other compensation.
They're asking for a list of conferences and retreats that are paid for by insurance companies. They're also insisting that insurance companies disclose the identity of all board members and their compensation.
According to the letter, all this information must be provided by Sept. 14 as part of an investigation of "executive compensation and other business practices in the health insurance industry."
Imagine that. An investigation of health insurance compensation launched by two powerful Democratic House Committee Chairmen in the midst of a coordinated campaign to vilify health insurance companies.
As far as intimidation tactics go, this latest move by Waxman and Stupak makes the White House's effort to "flag" online political opponents look small time.
More: Newt Gingrich: Sopranos-style tactics in health care
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Sopranos-style-tactics-in-health-care-8132851-53804682.html
20090821 Newt Gingrich Sopranos style tactics in health care
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