Commissioner By Day, Candidate By Night

Things continue to hum along in the Insurance Commissioner's office and on the campaign trail to be Delaware's next Lieutenant Governor.

In the office, I issued an order on Wednesday requiring one of our largest health insurance companies to start complying with the state's rules regarding prompt payment of doctors and other health care providers. You can read about it here. As you can see from reading a press release from just my second day in office in 2005 here, this issue has been a priority for me from the very start as Insurance Commissioner. We are going to be looking at the conduct of other companies as well, to be sure that everyone is complying with the law so that our health care providers can focus on caring for patients instead of dealing with red tape.

On Wednesday night I stopped in to visit with fellow Democrats at regional meetings for Brandwyine Hundred and the Pike Creek area, and also ran into our outstanding candidate for the 14th District State Senate seat, Representative Bruce Ennis. I have known Bruce for a long time, he is a good man and I am going to do what I can to help him get elected and then make sure that his seat stays Democratic.

Finally, we had a fundraiser on Thursday night at the Lobby House in Dover. It was a fun event, almost more of a reunion for a lot of us who have worked on and off in state government. In the picture I have posted here, noted Sussex County auctioneer and Democratic activist Richard Lindale attempts to convince me that he actually owns the tableclothes at the Lobby House, but that I can continue to use them for the rest of the event if I pay him $50.

This weekend: a Young Democrats event (Tim McBride has sent me approximately six reminders about it in the last twelve hours, I think he needs to lay off the coffee), an Alzheimers Memory Walk (Michele is one of the organizers), some canvassing for future State Senator Bruce Ennis, a visit to a dinosaur museum with the boys, and then I leave for Washington D.C. at 6:00 Sunday morning to spend the morning trying to convince the other 49 State Insurance Commissioners to rally enough votes in their home states to override the President's upcoming veto of the children's health insurance bill. And if you have to ask what I am doing on Sunday evening, you need know only six letters. E-A-G-L-E-S.