Ad: Health Insurance Companies Are Death Panels

By Nikki Schwab

August 21, 2009 RSS Feed Print

The health insurance companies are the real "death panels," according to Americans United for Change's new TV advertisement, which will hit national and D.C. cable next week. "Conservative politicians and pundits will do anything to keep the 'death panels' fantasy alive and well as part of an unscrupulous and concerted effort to kill health insurance reform," Jeremy Funk, press secretary for Americans United for Change, tells Whispers in an E-mail. "But where's the hysteria from these same conservatives over the real death panels that exist right now in America with the big insurance companies denying millions of Americans the care they need by citing 'pre-exisiting' conditions?"

The ad shows congressional testimony from Dr. Linda Peeno, a former medical director at Humana Insurance and Blue Cross Blue Shield, in which she confesses denying a man a necessary lifesaving operation. He died. If the footage looks familiar, it was also used in Michael Moore's 2007 documentary, Sicko.

Here's the ad:

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you guys are soooo right... ALL of you!!!! <3 you guys!!!! :)

Olivia of NJ 2:53PM February 12, 2010

You are absolutely right! I just thought of this tonight and googled the idea to see if anyone else had realized this. The Dems are unfortunately to tied to the insurance and drug companies to say such things, but the insurance companies invented Death Panels!

Michael Selman of TX 10:13PM September 02, 2009

We just DID reform government. Out with the corporate lackeys and in with the young new idealist. But, what? We'd want people like Dick Cheney deciding our healthcare benefits? I don't think so. Cheney was deeeep into corporate pockets. The distraction seems to be some people's cries on the internet, "the sky falling," and the ruse? Claims that nothing will change with healthcare reform is a ruse. What a JOKE! Some folks seem to consider us all stupid, but we really are not. It is the fear that after over sixty years of greater and greater corporate profits things might actually change to benefit the common man that has corporate fat cats so scared. You bet the bill, as written, is going to benefit the common man, and thank God too! It's about time.

God bless America, and our gutsy new president.

Jon of WA 7:55PM September 01, 2009

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