Busy Fall Ahead For Health Reform Advocates
08/31/08
Obama's Plans To Monitor Insurance Companies Pick Up Support From Big Coalition
by Anna Edney
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
Regardless of how the Democrats' presidential standard-bearer eventually frames the health care debate, one thing is clear: This might be a long fall campaign for insurance companies.
The health care proposal by Illinois Sen. Barack Obama calls for a watchdog group to monitor insurance companies.
"Private insurance companies are antithetical to truly guaranteeing health care for all with a single standard of care," said Norman Solomon, a national board member with Progressive Democrats for America and an elected Obama delegate from California's 6th Congressional District. "They're in the business of limiting and denying health care, while maximizing profits."
But one of the largest and newest health care coalitions is just fine with Obama's approach to insurance firms.
