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According to insurance executives, the White House is threatening them with “retribution” if they don’t keep silent about the problems Obamacare is causing them.

Fascist thugs: According to insurance executives, the White House is threatening them with “retribution” if they don’t keep silent about the problems Obamacare is causing them.

“What is going on is a behind-the-scenes attempt by the White House to at least keep insurers from publicly criticizing what is happening on this Affordable Care Act rollout,” reports Andrew Griffin of CNN. ”Basically, if you speak out, if you are quoted, you’re going to get a call from the White House, pressure to be quiet.”

According to Griffin’s sources, Bob Laszewski of Health Policy and Strategy Associates – a prominent consultant for insurance companies with a history of criticizing ObamaCare – says he’s getting calls from the executives he works with, asking him to speak out on their behalf, “because they feel defenseless against the White House PR team.”

Laszewski told Griffin, “The White House is exerting massive pressure on the industry, including the trade associations, to keep quiet.” Industry sources confirmed “they fear White House retribution.”

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On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

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3 comments

  • wodun

    Not surprising from the same administration that told bankers that the only thing standing between them and mobs with torches and pitchforks was Obama. Not too long after that OWS was rioting all over the country for socialist revolution and targeting these same bankers.

  • mpthompson

    Fascist will be fascists.

    And to think that I’ve had moronic leftists try to tell me that fascism is rooted in right wing (converstive) ideaology. However, I guess you can’t expect better from people who get their news from Jon Stewart.

  • Edward

    Kristallnacht, anyone? OWS in Oakland and San Francisco California, for two, were smashing windows.

    Just remember that the NAZIs were the National *Socialist* German Workers Party. Only people to the left of the fascists, such as socialists and communists, think of them as right wing. The rest of us know better.

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