Despite President Barack Obama's heathcare reform laws, California insurance companies are balking about offering policies to children with pre-existing conditions.
That obstinance today drove Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez to Hardball on MSNBC where she said Democrats in California are taking steps to punish those insurance companies.
Asked host Chris Matthews, would you blackball them?
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Sanchez, who is facing a stiff challenge from Republican Van Tran in November, was unequivocal.
“Yes,” said OC's lone congressional Democrat who has made no secret of her interest in someday running for governor.
Calling
insurance company conduct “a shame” and an attempt to exploit
loopholes, she also said, “It's unbelievable that they [the insurance
companies] would actually do that [against children].”
She also claimed that insurance company profits “are higher than at any other point.”
According to an LA Times report cited on the show, 80,000 children in the state have no medical insurance.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.