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Orrex

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5. Help me out. Maybe just missing it...

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Sun Jul 1, 2012, 09:53 AM

Jul 2012

Where does it say that BP and its insurers win't be paying? It looks to me lile they're saying that most of the money paid by the companies will be sent along to the states hit hardest by the disaster. In particular, it looks like money will be used to help those residents who weren't/aren't able to afford insurance.

What am I missing?

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Congress: taxpayers to pay insurance companies' costs of BP disaster in Gulf [View all] dixiegrrrrl Jul 2012 OP

And yet they don't want the government to kick in on health care... WCGreen Jul 2012 #1

Glad this was posted in GD, but it needs to be posted in the Alabama forum, too. snot Jul 2012 #2

thank you. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2012 #3

unbelievable.... tomp Jul 2012 #4

Help me out. Maybe just missing it... Orrex Jul 2012 #5

This part, last paragraph AllyCat Jul 2012 #8

I read that as pipoman Jul 2012 #10

Thanks! I'm hoping that you've misread it though Orrex Jul 2012 #11

Now that I have re-read the article dixiegrrrrl Jul 2012 #13

It's all part of socializing the losses. AllyCat Jul 2012 #6

I think you are misinterpreting this. bluedigger Jul 2012 #7

I see your point. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2012 #14

Yeah, well that's PEANUTS compared to Solyndra toddwv Jul 2012 #9

"BP is getting off the hook" dixiegrrrrl Jul 2012 #12

So what's the point of having insurance then? 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #15

Over the last 10 years, not much. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2012 #16

Well they almost always turn a profit 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #17

Corporate socialism at work. nt valerief Jul 2012 #18

That's not ProSense Jul 2012 #19

Where are the asswipes whining about deficits now? nt valerief Jul 2012 #20

Another bailout. McCamy Taylor Jul 2012 #21

wtf? robinlynne Jul 2012 #22

Clearly ProSense Jul 2012 #23