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In reply to the discussion: Yay, ObamaRomneyCare! 23% rate increase! [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)...will be flowing into the pockets of the For Profit Health Insurance Industry EVERY SINGLE YEAR in the from of "subsidies"?
I haven't, but I'm sure it will make the $4Billion going to Big Oil look like chump change.
At least we get something from Big Oil for our money.
We get NOTHING from the Health Insurance Industry we now subsidize.
The Health Insurance Industry:
*manufactures NOTHING
*provides NO useful service
*creates NO Value Added Wealth
...but has now obtained the Corporate Holy Grail,
an Open Door to the US Treasury to guarantee their Profits with Tax Payer Money with little or no cost controls.
[font size=3]Public Money transferred to the Private Pockets of the already RICH!
That IS the "Uniquely American Solution![/font]
I am one of those who will benefit financially from the ACA (if Arkansas gets its shit together with their bizarre Private/Public Medicaid Expansion),
but I STILL oppose this Health Insurance SCAM on the traditional Democratic Party Principles I have fought for many years.
There is a much better, much cheaper, more egalitarian, much more effective way to do this without wasting BILLIONS Enriching the For Profit Insurance Industry. That is tax payer Money that will NOT be spent getting Health Care to Americans.

The Corporate Holy Grail:
[font size=3]Taxpayer Subsidies & Mandated Customers[/font]