President Demonizes Health Insurance Companies

In the latest move to pass his struggling healthcare reform package, the President has come out fighting against the insurance companies. Truth be told, many are handing him the issue on a golden platter with what seem to be excessive increases, but the President's biggest problem is that he hasn't shown to any real level of public satisfaction that his plan would have ANY real impact on what people pay for health insurance. Because the Dems are fixated on "universal coverage", they have largely ignored the 85% of the American public who do have healthcare--and for whom tort reform and increased free-market competition among insurance companies would have greater impact than anything in any bill yet put forward by the Democrats.