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Nancy Pelosi: No Fiscal Cliff Deal Without Tax Hikes For Rich (VIDEO)

Sunday, November 18, 2012


“Human beings are simple creatures. If Obamacare was a "giveaway" to the insurance industries... why weren't they happy about it? In fact, why are so many companies against it? Why are Republicans deathly opposed to it?

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As to why are Republicans "deathly opposed to it" (I'll assume you're referring to the little 'r's, Republican voters), it's because they, like you, determine what they're for or against by what their team's leaders tell them to be for or against.  If Republicans had written and passed ACA, little 'r's would be for it.  

Hey, wait just a minute!  Republicans and the insurance industry did write ACA!  It originated in the rightwing think tank, the Heritage Foundation.  And Mitt Romney implemented it in Massachusetts when he was the governor.  

The insurance and pharmaceutical industries aren't trying to kill ACA - They love it.  They wrote it.  
ACA was written by Liz Fowler, former executive at WellPoint (Max Baucus hired her as senior counsel to him as the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee - so much for Candidate Obama's pledge on restricting lobbyists from writing our laws).  

The regulations were created by the insurance industry and the regulations and legislation are being implemented and overseen by the insurance industry.  Obama put the foxes in charge of this chicken coop (former WellPoint executives Liz Fowler and Steve Larsen) to write both the legislation and the regulations, and enforce the regulations.  Fowler's most notable actions to date has been issuing waivers to businesses that don't want to have to provide insurance to their employees.

As far as why businesses don't support it, that's kind of a no brainer, don't you think?  They want to be in their own business, and not have the expense and headache of providing insurance to employees.  Of having the ability to get medical treatment tied to your job.  Businesses were our strongest allies in getting Medicare For All, single payer, through and into law.  Funny how Obama, right out of the gate in 2009, took single payer off the table, before negotiations ever began, isn't it?
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