TheMercenary |
06-22-2011 01:25 PM |
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Originally Posted by BigV
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But look, do you really make a mea culpa like this if you "fudged" the numbers in the first place? Or, does this sound more like "we've been paying attention as we progress on this path, and here's something we weren't expecting. Here's our suggestion to improve the situation."
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I see that as a symptom of Pelosi and Reid when they Ramhed it through the legislative process with minimal review, little to no bipartisan participation, and a very limited time to review. Like she said, we have to pass it to find out what's in it..... And this is what you get from such behavior when passing major Bills in Congress. So in that case, for me and many others who said, "Be careful what you wish for." this is the result.
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This, to me, is a good example of why ONLY having for profit health insurance is not adequate. Imagine public safety as an analogy. What if we only had for profit police protection? What would our crime statistics look like? And, since we don't have that program, how has that impacted the for profit security industry? I don't think there's any negative impact to those folks that want *extra* protection. Our health insurance industry could benefit from the same dual track, but we don't have such an option for health care.
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I don't have the answers, I said early on they should have gone all in or nothing at all. The in between is not going to work and many small companies will shed their health coverage and push people to the public option. But insted we got Obama making a huge backdoor deals with the insurance companies by inacting the individual mandate. And much of this was crafted and constructed by a former high-level executive of the nation's largest private health insurer, Liz Fowler.
You can read more about how corrupt the process was here:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/gl...0/07/15/fowler
What we have here is nothing short of Kabuki Theater and a bunch of applogists on here trying to make excuses as to why we should swallow this poison pill. The numbers were fudged and manipulated from the beginning. I said it before, I will say it again, Be careful what you wish for......
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