Phone eNews - Insurance Companies Choose Public Option

Hartford, CT - A poll of inurance company executives, including auto, life, and health care companies show 87% of all insurance company workers, including mid-level executives, will see their insurance coverage transferred to the "public option" once it passes Congress and becomes law. One top health insurance executive, on condition of anonymity, stated, "We will enhance our bottom line by transferring as many employees as possible to the government program, saving ourselves the expense and deterioration of moral intrinsic to denying procedures to our staff and their families." Another added, "With what we are spending on publicity and lobbyists to defeat the public option, we will not be able afford even that without lowering dividends."

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This item was called in by former UnitedHealth Group CEO Bill McGuire, who can cover all his health care costs out of pocket.