Insurance companies figured out the way around the restrictions in the legislation long before Obama's signature was dry on the law because the insurance industry not only wrote the bill, but becauseObama hired WellPoint's former VP (Liz Fowler, who actually authored the legislation) to be in charge of consumer issues and oversee the bill's implementation.
One loophole or con game in the legislation is 'medical loss ratio'. That's the amount of money insurers must spend on healthcare, and how it will enable insurance companies to continue to price gauge and keep obscene profits instead of delivering affordable and quality medical care to policy-holders.
Don't believe me? Meet Wendell Potter.
On Countdown with Keith Olbermann, whistleblower Wendell Potter talks with Lawrence O'Donnell.
There's rarely a majority in Congress to pass anything at all until a campaign has been mounted to sell it.
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