House Democrats Increase Health Insurance Pressure

Two leading Democrats in the House are looking for a series of financial figures for insurance companies in health, before upping Obama as president and his allies to push the insurance industry a central flaw in the campaign for reform of health care.

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), chairman of the panel's subcommittee on oversight and investigations, said on Monday more than 50 of the largest insurance companies for informing them that the Committee is to review executive compensation and other commercial practices in terms of health insurance. "We asked for detailed information on the remuneration of the company at the top of the workers, and information about Business Consulting, conferences and events sponsored, the profitability of individual attention that sells health products and revenue for the government programs Medicare and Medicaid.

The letters ask that a majority of the information submitted to the September 4, and the rest of the Seven 14. The house is scheduled to return September 8 Break.

Obama and Democratic leaders on Capitol has intensified its rhetoric against the insurance industry that the reform has progressed. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told members of his group to focus on insurance companies over alleged breaches of August, the flame is "bad boys" of the health care system. The insurance industry, in turn, says it supports reform in general, but was the main competitor in the Obama plan, the public, especially the option supported by the Liberals, but received only lukewarm support from the White House.

Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman for the U.S. plans for the health insurance industry has heard the Waxman-Stupak letter as a "political will" of the distraction of the main issues.

"This is a fishing expedition," says Zirkelbach. "It has been an attempt in recent weeks to raise the debate to focus on the industry of health insurance instead of solutions in health care."

Both in its current position and his last as chairman of the House oversight and Government Reform Committee, Waxman has developed a reputation as a master of orchestration high profile audience, often with representatives of the main industries in the harness. Although it is unclear if Waxman and Stupak's intention to put the insurance company executives to Capitol Hill to ask before banks of television cameras.