On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:02:53 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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"Tosk" wrote in message
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"Tosk" wrote in message
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More likely is that it's straight up politics in response to the ins.
cartel's refusal to allow a public option. They're afraid of the
competition, and they're using all means available to prevent it.
What's
wrong with competition? That's what anti-trust laws are all about. Why
should they be exempt? They've shown that they don't have restraint.

"JustWaitAFrekinMinute!" wrote in
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On Oct 21, 6:50 am, thunder wrote:
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:27:17 -0400, H the K wrote:
They repeatedly said they would accept a series of
new restrictions, as long as the legislation required Americans to
purchase insurance, thus assuring insurers millions of new
customers.

Requiring all Americans to purchase insurance, without some form of
public option (competition), would be a disaster.

There's no rational reason why health insurers should be exempt
from
anti-trust laws.

It goes back to when there were small insurance companies, and they
needed to share data. Those days are long gone, and I would welcome
the
removal of any antitrust exemptions.

It's called retaliation, racketeering at it's best read the quote
below.

"If enacted, the switch would mean greater federal regulation for an
industry that recently has stepped up its criticism of portions of a
health care bill moving toward the Senate floor."

The fact is, this would not have happened if they had not criticized
the administration...

So you admit it's nothing but brute retaliation, glad you are finally
coming around...


Brute force legislation. They've had a choice about being serious about
reform, and they've chosen to continue their base practices.

If they were serious they would allow us to buy drugs overseas, tort
reform, cross state insurance purchase... But they won't do any of these
things because then there would be no more boogie man to point at...


Why would you want to buy drugs that haven't been tested by the FDA? I know
they don't do the best job, but people die or get sick from tainted
medicine.

Tort reform has been going on a long time. Nothing wrong with continuing.

Crossing state lines seems fine to me. It fosters competition, just like the
public option will.

These are bandaids for a seriously broken system. Tort reform could
help the situation but it's going to require it's own process.