The Torquemada-in-his-own-mind, Henry Waxman, has summoned executives from Anthem Blue Cross (“ABC”) to explain themselves before his House committee.

Please, ABC execs, push back. Hard. Start by explaining how many people you employ and how many jobs are imperiled by the continued fecklessness of the hard left social engineers running D.C. these days.

Then talk about the bills you receive and have to pay, how many claims you promptly dispatch and how many more are paid after review.

Defend the industry that has helped build the greatest health care delivery system in the world.

Waxman et al have no idea of the seething contempt in which they are held beyond the Beltway. Their reputation is even lower than that of your industry. You have been their whipping boy for the past year, and your D.C. lobbyists have urged you to cooperate every step of the way towards oblivion.

Why not defend yourselves, and by doing so, our medical delivery system. Flawed as it might be and as screwed up as some in your industry are, there is no desire in the land to turn your job over to Henry Waxman and Nancy Pelosi.

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