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Bailing Out Health Insurers and Helping Obamacare (We all knew this was coming)
Weekly Standard ^ | 1/13/14 | JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

Posted on 01/13/2014 9:28:30 AM PST by Evil Slayer

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To: EQAndyBuzz

All of them. Just like the drug companies


21 posted on 01/13/2014 10:13:23 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Evil Slayer

Yes, but how many lanes did Christie’s staff close on a New Jersey bridge for a week?


22 posted on 01/13/2014 10:13:35 AM PST by kidd
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To: HotHunt
They kill as many as they cure.

But, I don't want to debate all that. I just want to point out that we implicitly endorse the system by participating in it. People who participate should quit complaining about it. Those who really want to change the system should quit participating. If there are people who want to participate and complain, well, they should probably see a doctor for help with that conflict.

23 posted on 01/13/2014 10:17:46 AM PST by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: Evil Slayer

The goverment way. Break something it had no legal authority to delve into. Then fix it which makes it worse. Our founders knew plenty.
So is the bailout figured into the cost of O’rino care?


24 posted on 01/13/2014 10:24:49 AM PST by DeWalt (Times are more like they used to be than they are today.)
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To: Evil Slayer

How unbelieveable? Obama is a corporatist, a “soft fascist.” Mussolini without the jingoism and the uniform.


25 posted on 01/13/2014 10:25:37 AM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: Evil Slayer

In other words, this is single payer by stealth


26 posted on 01/13/2014 10:29:38 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: HotHunt

Yes, fifty years ago, you would be dead right now. On the other hand, the best heart medical treatment available fifty years ago would have cost nowhere near $500,000, probably on the order of maybe $30,000 in 1964 dollars, $200,000 in today’s dollars. Since then medicine has become an industry, where everyone involved expects to make a lot of money , even if if that is not their only or even prime motive for going into the field. Federal money has become an expected and major supplier of funding, and insurance companies have gotten very fat on it as well. Something of the same dynamic has happened in higher education. College presidents used to be scholars; now they are fund raisers.


27 posted on 01/13/2014 10:40:39 AM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: Evil Slayer

Never forget that AARP signed onto this mess. They basically sold out HMO members. They did this to pimp for the insurance companies who sell their medigap policies thru AARP. AARP will make a cool billion dollars over the next ten years. I’ll never have anything to do with them.


28 posted on 01/13/2014 10:46:08 AM PST by donaldo
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To: Tau Food

“Seventy, eighty years? Is it really all that better now?”

can’t say about 78 but it sure is at 76!


29 posted on 01/13/2014 10:50:43 AM PST by dalereed
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To: Evil Slayer
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30 posted on 01/13/2014 10:59:26 AM PST by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: Evil Slayer

If we don’t bail them out, the companies will collapse and usher in the single payer system.


31 posted on 01/13/2014 11:04:34 AM PST by MattinNJ (It's over Johnny. The America you knew is gone. Denial serves no purpose.)
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To: Evil Slayer

This is a killer issue for the GOP created by the Left with Obamacare. The insurance industry is nominally supported by republicans, but the public’s appetite for bailouts just isn’t there. It’s all part of the Left’s grand plan to kill insurers and usher in single payer.


32 posted on 01/13/2014 11:04:52 AM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Lazamataz

My plan too.

Any advice on which company to victimize if bad stuff happens?


33 posted on 01/13/2014 11:15:42 AM PST by Luircin
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To: Luircin

Any company that played along. Anyone involved in creating the fustercluck.


34 posted on 01/13/2014 11:25:24 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Lazamataz

Did you ever get the sense that no matter how this sham of Obamacare is exposed it won’t make one iotta of difference with the overall agenda of this administration.....except for news agencies gleaning a story for their followers and politicians getting face time?


35 posted on 01/13/2014 11:30:31 AM PST by caww
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To: caww

No, I have more of this sort of sense:

That it is 1935, in Germany, and my last name is Goldstein.


36 posted on 01/13/2014 12:07:52 PM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
No one saw this coming

In this one, liberal dem "little folk" should be pretty disgusted. They'll probably really be surprised that the goal of Obamacare was to help RINOs further enrich insurance companies.

Ted Cruz's message just might resonate with a whole lot of voters in 2016.

37 posted on 01/13/2014 12:11:09 PM PST by grania
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To: Tau Food

Why should I tear up my Medicare Part A card? I was forced to pay a Medicare tax when I worked to help pay for hospital costs now that I’m over 65. What I don’t have to tear up, because I never got them, is Medicare Part A or the pharmaceutical program for seniors.


38 posted on 01/13/2014 12:13:29 PM PST by grania
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To: Evil Slayer

Since insurance on the exchanges is a cost plus proposition costs are bound to go up.


39 posted on 01/13/2014 12:28:56 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: Nifster
"What you should ask is why do people run to the doc when there is no good reason. "

I think hypochondriacs should be in their own pool (definitely not mine).

40 posted on 01/13/2014 1:35:23 PM PST by Paladin2
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