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Originally Posted by weekly
Dude, a catastrophe is Hurricane Katrina. 9/11. You, like a few hundred thousand other vocal Americans, have been caught hook, line and sinker by a well funded campaign of people who stand to lose large. I just shake my head in amazement at how gullible people are.
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Katrina was something no one could have prevented. This bill is a self-inflicted wound. It has nothing to do with helping people, this is about politics. If they'd really wanted a bill that worked both sides would have been concerned with the people who sent them to DC instead of the insurance companies who used lobbyists to pay them handsomely.
This bill has a couple of decent things in there, but just wait until the wealthy insurance companies with bags of money and armies of lawyers find loopholes and exploit them. Then we'll have a system that not only still excludes people, but now FORCES people to buy in or risk punishment. And who gains? The insurance companies because they will balance covering people with pre-existing conditions with millions of people who now are forced to pay premiums. If they can't afford premium payments I'm sure the government will subsidize them and the insurance companies will get paid anyway.
The insurance industry needs the overhaul. They need to lose their anti-trust status and the government needs to back the fuck off some. This is way out of line.