brCommentary: Ex-insurance insider tells all brHaving grown up in one of the most conservative and Republican places in the country — East Tennessee — I understand why many of the people who are showing up at town hall meetings this month are reacting, sometimes violently, when members of Congress try to explain the need for an expanded government role in our health care system.div class=feedflare a href=http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=6qVSDUEKAb4:18d6HiTOyao:yIl2AUoC8zAimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=yIl2AUoC8zA border=0/img/a a href=http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=6qVSDUEKAb4:18d6HiTOyao:7Q72WNTAKBAimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=7Q72WNTAKBA border=0/img/a a href=http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=6qVSDUEKAb4:18d6HiTOyao:V_sGLiPBpWUimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?i=6qVSDUEKAb4:18d6HiTOyao:V_sGLiPBpWU border=0/img/a a href=http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=6qVSDUEKAb4:18d6HiTOyao:qj6IDK7rITsimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=qj6IDK7rITs border=0/img/a a href=http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=6qVSDUEKAb4:18d6HiTOyao:gIN9vFwOqvQimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?i=6qVSDUEKAb4:18d6HiTOyao:gIN9vFwOqvQ border=0/img/a /divimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~4/6qVSDUEKAb4 height=1 width=1/ briSource: rss.cnn.com/ibrbrBill becomes hurricane, Claudette downgraded brBill became the first hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic season, but the storm remains far from land. Claudette was the first tropical storm to hit the U.S. mainland this season, making landfall in the Florida Panhandle early this morning. Claudette has now been downgraded to a tropical depression.div class=feedflare a href=http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=msIpcL6Bx8Q:mR2P9Zk8RJ8:yIl2AUoC8zAimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=yIl2AUoC8zA border=0/img/a a href=http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=msIpcL6Bx8Q:mR2P9Zk8RJ8:7Q72WNTAKBAimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=7Q72WNTAKBA border=0/img/a a href=http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=msIpcL6Bx8Q:mR2P9Zk8RJ8:V_sGLiPBpWUimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?i=msIpcL6Bx8Q:mR2P9Zk8RJ8:V_sGLiPBpWU border=0/img/a a href=http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=msIpcL6Bx8Q:mR2P9Zk8RJ8:qj6IDK7rITsimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=qj6IDK7rITs border=0/img/a a href=http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=msIpcL6Bx8Q:mR2P9Zk8RJ8:gIN9vFwOqvQimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?i=msIpcL6Bx8Q:mR2P9Zk8RJ8:gIN9vFwOqvQ border=0/img/a /divimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~4/msIpcL6Bx8Q height=1 width=1/ briSource: rss.cnn.com/ibrbrGay men attacked, executed, report says brHundreds of gay men have been tortured and killed in Iraq in recent months, some by the nation’s security forces, Human Rights Watch said Monday.div class=feedflare a href=http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=Rj130QobUJU:l4MYaV0-Kzs:yIl2AUoC8zAimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=yIl2AUoC8zA border=0/img/a a href=http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=Rj130QobUJU:l4MYaV0-Kzs:7Q72WNTAKBAimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=7Q72WNTAKBA border=0/img/a a href=http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=Rj130QobUJU:l4MYaV0-Kzs:V_sGLiPBpWUimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?i=Rj130QobUJU:l4MYaV0-Kzs:V_sGLiPBpWU border=0/img/a a href=http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=Rj130QobUJU:l4MYaV0-Kzs:qj6IDK7rITsimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=qj6IDK7rITs border=0/img/a a href=http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=Rj130QobUJU:l4MYaV0-Kzs:gIN9vFwOqvQimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?i=Rj130QobUJU:l4MYaV0-Kzs:gIN9vFwOqvQ border=0/img/a /divimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~4/Rj130QobUJU height=1 width=1/ briSource: rss.cnn.com/ibr