Posted on 10/22/2010 2:18:30 PM PDT by Bokababe
WASHINGTON – Health insurers flirted with Democrats, supported them with money and got what they wanted: a federal mandate that most Americans carry health care coverage. Now they're backing Republicans, hoping a GOP Congress will mean friendlier regulations.....
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Any company that thinks more government intervention in their business would actually be a good thing deserves to be bought out by someone who knows better.
Our Constitution is officially dead when companies feel the need to pay protection money to the State.
McRomney care...Ugghhhh!
“Our Constitution is officially dead when companies feel the need to pay protection money to the State.”
Bill Gates, Jr. learned that lesson from WJC.
Pass health care bills through bankruptcy. Community rate the premiums with no underwriting. Allow States to set the rules like we used to. Outlaw managed care and ppo’s. Allow malpractice proof care as an option. Let the market work. You will be amazed how fast the problems go away.
Pass health care bills through bankruptcy. Community rate the premiums with no underwriting. Allow States to set the rules like we used to. Outlaw managed care and ppo’s. Allow malpractice proof care as an option. Let the market work. You will be amazed how fast the problems go away.
Pass health care bills through bankruptcy. Community rate the premiums with no underwriting. Allow States to set the rules like we used to. Outlaw managed care and ppo’s. Allow malpractice proof care as an option. Let the market work. You will be amazed how fast the problems go away.
Pass health care bills through bankruptcy. Community rate the premiums with no underwriting. Allow States to set the rules like we used to. Outlaw managed care and ppo’s. Allow malpractice proof care as an option. Let the market work. You will be amazed how fast the problems go away.
Pass health care bills through bankruptcy. Community rate the premiums with no underwriting. Allow States to set the rules like we used to. Outlaw managed care and ppo’s. Allow malpractice proof care as an option. Let the market work. You will be amazed how fast the problems go away.
what was that Ben Franklin said about appeasing a crocodile?
A day or so after the election Mitch McConnell will start making noise about supporting individual mandates.
Count-on-it.
Bear in mind that the great companies were started by visionaries who took pride of ownership and embraced the free enterprise system. In earlier decades, they were not subject to dictatorial Government regulations or unions. As the entrepreneurial cattle barons, oil magnates and railroad moguls died - their companies had became the playthings of investors, Boards, CEOs and bureaucrats.
Those ‘private’ companies now resemble government bureaucracies and share similar methods and functions. CEOs move from one to the other - infected with tunnel vision and contaminated by Government complexity.
The idea is that based on some argument on environmentalism, safety, for the children, our security, crime, equality etc they push an agenda that in reality benefits a specific business at the expense of others- External dichotomy.
Concrete example: pass laws that mandate competing technology is removed as a substitutable option, i.e. incandescent light bulbs. Pass laws that remove certain refrigerants. Create bogus safety laws that don't really improve safety, but significantly impact the competitors ability to import and sell vehicles (The Germans did this for years).............
That's the product when “the people” have become “the masses.” When a government mettle's in everything. In such a world it's big business that rules, not the small and medium guy. In such a world, the bureaucrat becomes the person choosing the winners and losers, not a market with a supply and demand curve. We're already there-
Mitch McConnel could have stopped the HC bill if he had so desired.
The health insurance companies are just following the crowd. They will try to force the Republicans to keep the mandates and then tinker around the edges.
This will not do. I’ll bet that they are trying to do a deal with Romney and McConnell. Corporatism does not equal free markets.
Our culture has determined that the Constitution need not be enforced. Once again, human nature has limited the life of a once successful Republic.
TENNCARE is just as bad.
Flirted is too kind a word.......O and the demonrats went after the health insurers with hammer and tong........threats, intimidation and bribes........kinda like the mafia SOP. A better word than "flirted" would be "relented".......
Health insurers...got what they wanted: a federal mandate that most Americans carry health care coverage.
This phrase alone shows just how extremely limited is the understanding of the health insurance industry by the two authors, JIM KUHNHENN and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR..........
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