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kenny blankenship

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14. "We're gonna regulate them!"

Sat Mar 31, 2012, 01:06 PM

Mar 2012

Yeah, just like the SEC regulated Goldman Sachs.
The bill was written with Big Insurance literally in the Senate Finance Committee room and dictating. How can a law originating in regulatory capture not lead to more of the same? The one thing they took good care of was to order the arrangement so that the Insurance Cartel donations would keep coming and coming. Cost controls? Nope! (Unless someone is so dumb as to believe that a Medical Loss Ratio is anything but an incentive for insurers to encourage their vendors to raise their prices as quickly as possible.) Reasons for Big Insurance to keep cutting checks to the likes of Max Baucus, Kent Conrad and Bill Tauzin? Everlasting under this public-private arrangement.

"We're gonna regulate them!" Yeah. That one always gives me a laugh. A very bitter laugh, but sometimes you have to take whatever laughs you can get.

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If the damn right wing court declares the Health Care law illegal, then the GOP will run ads..... [View all] Logical Mar 2012 OP

If the court knocks it down we're never getting single payer. MrSlayer Mar 2012 #1

I respectfully disagree 99th_Monkey Mar 2012 #2

I can't see it. MrSlayer Mar 2012 #3

The owners Uncle Joe Mar 2012 #6

"The owners of the congress will never allow their minions to vote for it" Dokkie Mar 2012 #7

Congress' owners had better "have a little talk" then w/ SCOTUS, and SOON. 99th_Monkey Mar 2012 #10

I agree with your take on it. n/t Uncle Joe Mar 2012 #4

not if everyone is like you kenny blankenship Mar 2012 #8

Exactly libtodeath Mar 2012 #20

The purpose of the law is to secure the position of the existing profit centers TheKentuckian Mar 2012 #11

For fuck sakes, throw in the towel before you even know or try anything WTF! lonestarnot Mar 2012 #13

Reality is reality. MrSlayer Mar 2012 #19

That is what the rw wants us all to believe libtodeath Mar 2012 #21

A lot of ifs.....but the Republican plan is simple......... Historic NY Mar 2012 #5

Quietly encourage them to do nothing - the best policy for now kenny blankenship Mar 2012 #9

Oh yeah, an easy decade of "you gotta give it a chance" TheKentuckian Mar 2012 #12

"We're gonna regulate them!" kenny blankenship Mar 2012 #14

"but sometimes you have to take whatever laughs you can get." great white snark Mar 2012 #16

Lots of proof. (How the heck did you miss this, back then) kenny blankenship Mar 2012 #18

An ad like that plays to the Tea Party. Their votes aren't in play. DefenseLawyer Mar 2012 #15

and Obama can run ads about activist judges rewriting law Johonny Mar 2012 #17

How about: Whenthey go apeshit....say, Obama can't make law rustydog Mar 2012 #22