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DEAN: You would not let us choose another program. You forced us into the insurance industry. We don’t want to be forced into the insurance industry. You took away our choice. That is wrong.
LANDRIEU: That is not true, you never had that choice to begin with.
DEAN: The President campaigned [...]
Listen to Ronald Reagan speak out against socialized medicine and compulsory health insurance programs of his day. The truths are still applicable to our day. Visit: Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against ObamaCare [...] 
Even far-left leaning Howard Dean is criticizing it!
There are some good things in this bill. The problem is, we’re now committed to a solution using the private insurance companies. And you will be forced to buy insurance. [...] Don’t call it “reform.” Some half-assed regulations telling the insurance companies there will be 30 million more victims to rape, but now the raping can only be done every other week – that’s not reform.
That’s pimping. I’m a writer, I like to use the correct word.
[...]From what I understand, there is no real enforcement mechanism for the proposed insurance mandate.
Which is too damned bad, since I was looking forward to going to jail for refusing to pay it.
[...]So they’re dropping the public option, the Medicare buy-in, and the medical loss ratio requirements.
This is not reform. This is a big wet kiss for the insurance industry. If they don’t go to reconciliation and restore these components, I won’t support it and neither should anyone else.
I might, [...]
PHOTO: NEW SYMBOL OF SENATE DEMOCRATSPHOTO: NEW SYMBOL OF SENATE DEMOCRATSBack to the dermatologist today for two more biopsies, this time on my nose. (Basal cell carcinoma.)
“I want you to come back once a week so we can get all this done before your insurance runs out,” the doctor said. I looked at him.
“I’m on unemployment,” I said. “It’s a [...]
First of all, I’d like to reiterate that yes, a bill without a public option can serve the same purpose as the public option: namely, to force efficiency and competition. And I don’t buy the insurance company “we won” mantra just yet, because the Medicare buy-in proposal is a [...]
Barack Obama and the Democrats think I am retarded:
We will not back down
Brendan –
As we head into the final stretch on health reform, big insurance company lobbyists and their partisan allies hope that their relentless attacks and millions of dollars can intimidate us into accepting the status quo.
So I have [...]
This is really good news. Via Chris Bowers:
Additionally, there was consensus support for a requirement long backed by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and other liberals for insurance companies to spend at least 90 percent of their premium income providing benefits, a step that supporters argue effectively limits their spending [...]
And of course, this will slow down the process. But hey, that much longer before we have to buy crappy, overpriced insurance, huh?
The Senate narrowly rejected an amendment that would have restricted abortion coverage in the pending health-care bill, leaving in question whether Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) has [...]
Why is Barney Frank so Effing Mad?As you’ll remember, I’ve been talking about this for a while, and Howard Dean suggested the same thing.
This, of course, is to pacify the crotchety old liberals who’ve made life so unpleasant for the handmaidens of the insurance industry. And while I wouldn’t mind having this, it still doesn’t [...]
I’m glad I don’t have Aetna, but I know people who do. Better be really, really careful about anything you claim:
Health insurance giant Aetna is planning to force up to 650,000 clients to drop their coverage next year as it seeks to raise additional revenue to meet profit expectations.
In [...]
Over half a million US citizens are set to lose their health 
