Rockefeller Uses Health-Insurance Profits Statistic Calculated by ACORN-Backed Group to Make Case for Government-Run Health Care

Thursday, August 13, 2009
By Nicholas Ballasy, Video Reporter


(CNSNews.com) - Senate Commerce Chairman John D. Rockefeller (D-W.V.) told CNSNews.com that America needs a government-run health insurance provider that does not need to make a profit and that will compete with private health insurance companies because private insurance company profits have increased by 400 percent since 2001.

“I mean, they (health insurance companies) are making so much money it is just ridiculous,â€