banjojack wrote:
One of the main authors was Max Baucus, (D) MT. He has since said it was a "train wreck," and withdrawn his support. You might also notice that Baucus has announced he will not seek re-election, since he couldn't get elected dogcatcher after this fiasco.
If you all want the truth about the so called "Obamacare" law, do some research. It was supposedly written by a "friend" of Max Baucus and former VP of WellPoint Inc., named Liz Fowler, but in truth it was written by the insurance industry, most notably WellPoint Inc., an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, and the nations largest insurer. The entire insurance industry was in some way supportive of this massive extraction of money from the pockets of the working class, and that money's deposit into the pockets of the insurance industry and their biggest investors.
This law was authored to do two things. First, to force thousands of working people to purchase a product, health insurance, which they would not have purchased without government forcing them. Second, it allows government to funnel millions of tax dollars, in the form of insurance subsidies for the non-working, into the pockets of the insurance industry, and thereby, the pockets of insurance company VPs and the investors in insurance companies.
Democrats led the passage of this massive taxpayer financed give away to the insurance industry, so I wonder if you can guess which party, and which presidential candidate, the insurance companies and their biggest investors have been supporting with their political contributions, for the past seven, or so years?
Democrats couldn't care less about the poor uninsured, except that by giving them free health insurance on the taxpayers dollars, they also line the pockets of some of their biggest political contributors, keep the money flowing to the DNC, and to democrats, that's politics. The icing on the democrat's cake is the continued votes of the ignorant and lazy people who get the free, taxpayer financed, insurance.