Posted on 12/20/2009 10:28:54 AM PST by SmithL
I got a call from Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry the other day. From the sound of things, the Senate clearly intends to take its holiday break Wednesday, no matter what.
If so, President Obama is going have a tough time making his Christmas deadline for a health care reform bill to win Senate approval.
At this point, it looks like the biggest winners when a bill finally does pass are going to be the insurance companies.
They'll be getting millions of new customers - at government expense.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
They'll be getting millions of new customers - at government expense.That would be at taxPAYER expense, but Willie belongs to the party that thinks government owns all the money anyways.
>>at government expense.
My tagline says it all.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), using exceptionally heated language, called the health care bill on Sunday “seedy Chicago politics,” “backroom deals that amount to bribes,” “Enron accounting,” “the worst of Washington,” “phony,” and a “sham,” adding that Obama’s campaign slogan of “change you can believe in, after this health care bill debacle is now becoming an empty slogan.”
Asked it the Senate bill was a done deal, Graham, appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, replied:
“This is far from over
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/1209/Graham_slams_health_care_process.html
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They’ll be getting millions of new customers - at TAX PAYERS expense.
So what’s senator girly man from the jasmine state gonna do about it? I’m hearing a lot of “outrage” in the body politic. Almost enough outrage to issue a UN sanction.
where’s captain obvious, in the shower?
Good point and little I suppose we can do about it either even though public opinion is over whelming against this I suppose all we can do is vote them out.
When liberal dreams collide with public opinion
I also seem to remember that a “cap” on insurance company profits is included. That language can also mean a profit guarantee, despite operating expenses. I think 8% was the figure brokered.
Civil uprise of either violent or peaceful means will result in a declared state of emergency, where a police state will become irrevocable. BTW, look for federal, state, and local gubmint employees to be exempt from paying into this mess. Their few pieces of silver to gain a predictable trigger finger.
The government won’t be able to hold things together. The nature of the right is very different from that of the left.
When the left threatens to boycott X or not follow a particular law, they almost never stick to their threats, and it is always a feeble number that actually do. Leftists only engage in such actions because of the feelings that it generates.
The right, on the other hand, believes in immutable principles. Principles do not change because of one’s mood on a particular day.
I'm not so sure many of us really know what group-think combined with a Saul Alinsky philosophy leaning modern political machine is capable doing for your own good.
++++ it looks like the biggest winners when a bill finally does pass are going to be the insurance companies ++++
The “plan” all along. Wonder what Pelosi and the gang was so worried about when they emerged from the behind doors meeting with Paulson in 08 ? How about all their pension and federal pensions investments invested in insurance bank bonds at the time (along with state pension funds)?
These were/are by regulation AAA rated bonds correct?, and their investment in bank bonds “suddenly realized” worth maybe nothing if truly called on (MBS banking crash etc.,)
I believe at the time property and causualty were in roughly 60% bonds, H.C. close to 40%. The golden calf.
“The “plan” all along.”
True. But I doubt there is any good conclusion other than most “conservatives” here support fascism. It sounds good to them, private industry-government “partnership.”
The plan was always to fake out the “left” with a vague publicky somethingorothertalk, which worked. I do not know how successful they could have known it would be on faux-conservatives who obsessed on the “public option.” On some level I think they knew what this was all about truly, and out of some shame they focused all energy on the public option.
Plus the media reporting was terribly naive. Even National Review went nuts on the public option fake-out.
The insurance companies will not be so happy when sick kids (later adults) forced upon them while well folks choose to pay the fine rather than pay for health care. Oh, wait, they will simply raise their rates to all policy holders.
Willie column seems pretty entertaining, I’ll give him that.
They are getting millions of new customers due to Government power.
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