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>> this week on bill moyers journal. >> moyers: what stands between you and health care reform? >> the business that they are in is health care, certainly, but keep in mind that what they want to do is enhance their profits. >> moyers: an insider tells it like it is. stay tuned. captioning sponsored by public affairs television >> moyers: welcome to the journal. the biggest medical drama on our tv screens this summer is not reruns of "house" or "greys anatomy." its a high stakes, life-...

>> this week on bill moyers journal. >> moyers: what stands between you and health care reform? >> the business that they are in is health care, certainly, but keep in mind that what they want to do is enhance their profits. >> moyers: an insider tells it like it is. stay tuned. captioning sponsored by public affairs television >> moyers: welcome to the journal. the biggest medical drama on our tv screens this summer is not reruns of "house" or "greys anatomy." its a high stakes, life-...

anymore. with that, i yield back. >> thank you. that concludes the opening statements of all members. one of our witnesses had to step out just for a moment. lets stand in recess the hearing will come back to order. as i stated before we had the brief recess, that concludes the opening statements by members of the subcommittee. i would like to call upon our first panel of witnesses. our first panel we have robin beaton, who is a policyholder from walkahatchee, texas. miss peggy raddatz...

more importantly, however, these terminations are extremely significant to the tens of thousands of people who needed health care and couldnt get it during these five years because their policies were rescinded. in my opinion, of course, the solution to these problems is to ,,,, comprehensive health rbrb)) mr. chairman, im pleased that youre holding this hearing and i thank you for the time allotted me. >> mr. barton, for opening statement, please? >> thank you, mr. chairman. this is m...

that were sitting here today hearing these horror stories of patients who have been caught up ,,,,n inefficient, @@arbrb time every day watching young patients with no hair, with i.v.s in their arms or in their chest going into a port, walking around and taking care of each other much better than our health care industry takes care of patients in their time of need. and its a slander on the names of the health care professionals who do everything they can to keep patients like your bro...

work those things out in advance as we have in most hearings in the past. >> i agree. >> todays hearing is the second in a series of hearings investigating the individual health insurance market. approximately 16 million americans have individual health insurance policies. once people apply and are issued their insurance cards, they breathe a sigh of relief and figure their health cares are covered. unfortunately that sigh of relief may turn into a frenzied panic if...

our panel today are for-profit r was the cross and blue shield. i wonder whether the cross and blue shield is not in one of our panelists today. clearly as a non-profit company, they would not have a purely profit driven motived to engage in this type of behavior. this is curious. i think there are a number of questions that we would like to propose to a company that functions as a non-profit. it is the best possibility of each insurance company to do their due diligence before contrac...