Citing billions of dollars in costs from fraud against private and public health plans, a Delaware senator is seeking to strengthen the government’s role in investigating and prosecuting individuals abusing the system.

Omitting a government-run health insurance program from a Senate reform bill will give private insurers “free rein” to increase premiums and “drive up the cost of federal subsidies,” according to a group of Senate Democrats.

Some Democrats are calling them “angry mobs” and dangerous “extremists.” Other fellow citizens might call them Americans exercising their right to free speech.

Any way you slice it, ordinary folks are showing strong …  Read →