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Old 04-01-2007, 08:28 PM   #9 (permalink)
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I cannot understand the mentality that places more faith in insurance companies, who are driven by shareholder value and in which you have no influence in decision-making, versus government, where at least you play a part in electing and determining their duration in office.
Representative John D. Dingell, Democrat of Michigan, who has introduced bills to extend Children's Health Insurance, agrees:

“To rely on a bunch of good-hearted insurance companies whose purpose is, quite frankly, to make money — to expect them to go into the charitable business of taking care of a lot of hungry and impoverished kids — strikes me as the height of folly,” Mr. Dingell said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/wa...html?th&emc=th
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Doggone it darn right you betcha bless your heart maverick