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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (751378)11/5/2013 9:52:21 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (2) of 1575988
 
Hi bentway; Re: "The health insurance industry SHOULD die. They are rent-seeking middlemen that add nothing but cost."

I've no doubt that the people who created Obamacare feel as you do about this. But Obamacare wasn't sold to the American public as "this is the program that is going to kill the health insurance industry". Obama was all about "you can keep your insurance", "you can keep your doctor". The massive gap between the message and the Democrat's true beliefs and intentions doesn't exactly paint the Democrats as "the party of trust" going into the next elections, LOL. Already there's plenty of quotes going around with big Democrats talking about Obamacare as simply being a stepping stone to single payer. And this is *before* we get onto the subject of the stunning display of Democratic incompetence.

So what do you call the people who've lost the ability to see their trusted doctors? Doctors that they've had personal friendships with for decades? What's the term the military uses? Oh yes, "collateral damage". Yeah, that will be a great method of converting swing voters to pull the D lever. "Vote for the Democrats, we're running a war against capitalism! We'll tell you whatever it takes to get us into power and we don't care if it screws up your health. We don't care if you lose your full time job and have to take two part time jobs." And what do you think those people you screwed over are doing now? Do you think it's possible that a few of them have decided that they're not going to vote D anymore? Do you suppose that some of them are quite angry and are talking to their friends and relatives?

-- Carl

P.S. My guess is that the health insurance industry can survive this. Germany has private health insurance even though their government health insurance started in 1883. So when the Republicans take over and toss out all this garbage they'll have little difficulty bringing the system back to where it was circa 2008.
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