Senate passes Health insurance Profits subsidy act. For-Profit Insurers party all night.

[JohnWxy]

Yes, the Senate passed the Health Insurers Profit Protection Act - with mandates for people to buy insurance and subsidizing those purchases at whatever prices the For-Profit Insurers choose - since there is NO PUBLIC OPTION in there as a check to Health INsurers greed.

Thus we are subsidizing the most expensive, least effective and most inefficient health care delivery "non-system" in the industrialize world.

Pardon me if my 'rejoicing' is somewhat restrained. Yes, 36-27 million people will be insured now, but the cost as PRes. Obama himself said "will bankrupt the Government" -- possibly in 10 years or less - especially since we are trying to dig out of this REPUBLICAN DYSTOPIA now.

But the inurance companies are happy, the lobbyists are happy, but the only thing is the management and stockholders of these companies NEVER see the precipice coming. They want to keep charging all they can get away with, never facing the fact that there is only so much money to go around. and if they start demanding more than the society can bear, they are going to crash and burn - and hurt the economy in the process.

Oh, well, this will lead to a rational, non-profit single payer system after-all - that is after "the Fall" (of the for profit health care industry).

ONce a society decides Health Care is a right of the people the 'charge-all-that-the-market-will-bear' model currently used by For-Profit Health Care Insurers cannot be supported. Health care becomes a utility. NOt a luxury. Utilities are regulated as to profits. A Health care system for all the people cannot run on the "Maximize Profits" model but rather must use the "Maximize Value" (to the community of the insured.) model instead.

Republicans of course, continued to rage in fanatical partisan opposition to the bill even though it subsidizes insurance company profits and provides for NO COST CONTROLS (NO PUBLIC OPTION). So since they got what they wanted and fougth for, why be opposed(not one Republican could be foundt to vote for the bill)? Because it does, despite it's significant faults, represent on balance, progress by providing insurance (albeit in the most expensive way possible) to 36-37 million people who currently can't afford it. The Corporate Lobbyist party, true to it's avowed purspose of being the Party of "NO" continues to fight the Democrats efforts to achieve any progress for America.

Who needs AL Qaeda when you've got the GOP - the Corporate Lobbyist Party - THe American Fascist Party - The American Taliban - in all guises dedicated to sabotaging the Democratic party's efforts to further democracy and engaged, effective, responsible government and therby achieve progress for America (and ALL Americans - the rich and corporations do better when the 'average' people are not ravaged for all they are worth). But of course, the American Fascist Party can't be expected to realize this. Realistically, as long as there is an American FAscist Party responsible, democratic government and rational progress to make America more economically vibrant and stronger will be compromised.



During Midnight Session, Senate Healthcare Bill Passes First Floor Vote

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[ixion]

1. Yep, we've been screwed once again

it just never ends. :(

[zipplewrath]

3. NAFTA II

I've lived through this before. NAFTA, DOMA, DADT, and the Welfare reform act amongst others. This doesn't end pretty. At least out of LBJ we got the Great Society and Civil Rights legislation. This time we'll get the war AND get screwed.

All I can say is keep the interns out of the Oval Office.

[David in Canada]

2. This Will Embolden the GOP

The GOP didn't budge an inch and whined like toddlers and still got most of what they wanted. No public option, entrenchment of their corporate pimps, just to name two.

Since the GOP didn't give squat, they should not get squat. To do so will to only embolden them further. The price of refusing to cooperate needs to be retaliation or there can be no cooperation.

If Democrats have a spine, they will: 1) Pass this turkey. 2) Come back after Christmas and rewrite it in Congress. 3) Pass the rewritten bill using reconciliation. 4) Expel Lieberman from the Democratic caucus and move his sorry ass to a desk in the men's visitors restroom.

Do this for the rest of the 111th Congress and then ask the GOP "Ready to play nice, yet?"