The financial sector almost brought down the world’s economy, but we can’t get regulations passed to prevent that from happening again.
I have no confidence that this is going to be anything other than a give-away to insurance companies with less actual health care available, and they are delaying the start of the real plan for four years to avoid taking responsibility for this mess.
It is always possible that meaningful reform will come out of conference, but I think it is more likely that the result will be even worse.
]]>lol. that made my day.
swissdutch, my foot. we haven’t got their [much better] safety net, we haven’t got their [much lower] costs, and in the case of the swiss, we haven’t got their [higher] income level.
yeah, the insurance market structure looks sorta the same, but we haven’t got anywhere near the economy to support that kind of market, and no way, no how do any of the bills have the anywhere near the govt-imposed price controls on the underlying health care costs.
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Nothing has ever been improved after being passed. Laws are almost never repealed. How many years has the alternate minimum tax been a problem, without any move to fix it?
If a bad bill gets passed, it will never get fixed, because Congress will avoid the issue.
It is my opinion that no bill is better than a bad bill, and the problem won’t be seriously addressed until a number of the senior leaders in Congress lose their seats. Harry Reid looks like he is going to lose his office, and a new Democratic leader in the Senate will be a needed change.
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These guys think they are going to get away with fooling people because of the long delay. I don’t doubt that the timing is based on the reelection dates of a number of Senators, leaving only a third of the Senate vulnerable to the backlash.
The insurance companies are going to jack up rates and dump anyone they think might cost them money. All they are concerned with is their profit margin, and stock price.
Since the Senators want to work for corporations, the voters should give them a chance.
]]>This bill has so much toxic waste in it that it resembles the “hairy buffalo” of frat party fame, the barrel in the middle of the room into which everyone pours whatever liquor they brought. The only difference is that with the hairy buffalo, at least the individual ingredients are mostly palatable.
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