During a hearing Rep. Dennis Kucinich got a simple but powerful admission from top executives at the largest insurance companies in the country. Kucinich asked, “Do you believe that a health insurers refusal to pay for a patient’s cancer treatment can directly or indirectly cause harm or death to that patient?”

In turn each of the executives answered yes. (Richard Collins at United Healthcare Group, Brian Sassi at Wellpoint, Inc., Patricia Farrell at Aetna, Inc., James Bloem at Humana, Inc., Thomas Richards at Product CIGNA Healthcare, and Colleen Reitan at Health Care Service Corp.)