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HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A PRESIDENT ACT THIS WAY BEFORE?
By
Neal Boortz
@ March 10, 2010 8:49 AM

I'm talking about the full-court press on the part of The Community Organizer and the Democrats to demonize the health insurance industry. This is Obama's current tactic on trying to get his health-care poison pill passed. The feeling is that if you gin up enough hatred of the health insurance industry in the dumb masses, the people will crawl to Washington on their bloody hands and knees begging their Savior, Barack Obama, to do something to save them.

You've heard of the book "Rules for Radicals" by Saul Alinsky, haven't you? In his community organizing days Obama taught workshops in Chicago on the Alinsky method? Method, you say? What method? Well ... let' me just share a few of the points in Alinskey's book and you make your own determination as to whether or not Obama has learned his "Rules for Radicals" lessons well:

* "An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent .."
* "Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty ..."
* "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon ..."
* "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

Now ... does it seem to any of you that Obama's demonization of the health insurance companies might be an attempt to "stir up dissatisfaction and discontent?" Is Obama looking "for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty"? Does Obama ridicule health insurance company executives? Does it look of late like Obama has picked his target, is trying to freeze it, personalize it and polarize it?

Yesterday some health insurance executives were meeting at a hotel in Washington DC. Here comes Howard Dean, Democrat National Chairman to lead a little protest outside that hotel. Dean gives his gathering - made up largely of SEIU members - a choice: Either they're "for the insurance companies or for the people."

I intercepted an internal White House memorandum yesterday. This memorandum details the new charges that will be leveled against health insurance companies and executives as Obama's demonization efforts go forward. The following accusations are scheduled to be made. Health insurance executives:

* Eat puppies.
* Sell their mothers and daughters into prostitution.
* Burn churches
* Spray paint swastikas on synagogues
* Don't come to a full stop at stop signs
* Tear tags off of mattresses
* Hunt out of season
* Don't wash before leaving the restroom
* Trade secret recipes for kitten soup
* Hate dogs (like Belinda)
* Wear stripes with plaids
* Cheat at golf

... and those are just the charges that will come out THIS week.

OK ... seriously. We all understand the tactic here. Obama eventually wants the government to be responsible for paying for all health care services of any kind for every American. Demonization of the private sector health insurance industry is a necessary step. Health insurance companies must be established to be the focus of all evil before the government takeover can gain steam.

Yesterday I played soundbites on the air from The Community Organizer. He said that the health insurance companies are telling their investors "We are in the money ... we are going to keep on making big profits ... even though a lot of folks are going to be put under hardship." He also said " What's hard is what millions of families and businesses are going through because we allow the insurance companies to run wild in this country."

Yeah .. that sounds very presidential, doesn't it? Someone tell me, please, the difference between Obama's efforts to demonize the private health industry and Hitler's demonization of Jews.

OK .. let's set the record straight here. First of all, are these insurance companies running wild? Hardly. Every one of the 50 states has a regulatory agency that tightly regulates what these insurance companies do and how much they can charge. That's hardly "running wild."

Secondly ... this "keep on making big profits" bit. What's the truth? We covered this yesterday in the Nuze ... but here are the highlights:

According to the most recent Fortune 500 rankings, health insurers are not even among the top-30 United States industries in profit-margin. Health insurers rank 35th, with a profit-margin of just 2.2 percent -- less than one-fifth the profit-margin of railroads. None of the ten largest American health insurers made profits of more than 4.5 percent, and two of them lost money. Health insurers' collective profit-margin is less than one-eighth that of drug companies and less than one-seventh that of companies that sell medical products or equipment. It's also less than that of medical facilities. Yet when was the last time you heard President Obama rail against greedy hospitals?

The combined profits of America's ten largest health insurers are $8.3 billion. That's less than two-thirds of the profits of Wal-Mart alone, less than half of the profits of General Electric alone, and less than one-seventh of what Medicare loses each year to fraud. Health insurers collectively have one-eighth the profit-margin of McDonald's or Coke, one-ninth that of eBay, and one-fifteenth that of Merck.

In all, the combined profits of the 14 largest American health insurers (the ones who crack the Fortune 1000) are $8.7 billion. That's less than 0.4 percent, or 1/250th, of overall U.S. health-care costs, which are $2.5 trillion.

This is well worth printing and showing to your friends. Just be careful .. since you're showing Obama to be a dishonest politician, repeating these statistics will be noted as "hate speech."