WASHINGTON – In a long-anticipated showdown, liberal Democrats twice failed on Tuesday to inject a government-run insurance option into sweeping health care legislation taking shape in the Senate, despite bipartisan agreement that private insurers must change their ways.
The two votes marked a victory for Montana Democrat Max Baucus, the Senate Finance Committee chairman, who is hoping to push his middle-of-the-road measure through the panel by week's end. It also kept alive the possibility that at least one Republican may yet swing behind the overhaul, a key goal of both Baucus and the White House.
The ultimate insult will come when progressive Democrats vote for the bad bill.
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I just recently heard that the health insurance industry has an exemption to "anti-trust" laws. The only other industry that does is Major League Baseball.
All this time I thought that the insurance companies were illegally colluding to set premiums. Turns out, it was legal the entire time.
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God I hate Baucus, but I hate the people he runs against more...ffs.
Bauccus has accepted 8 million from the health insurance lobby.. and so he's in charge of drafting the legislation.
Makes sense.
I guess my point for continuing to mention this stuff is that our government does not serve the majority of Americans. We're controlled by wealthy interests, and nothing is going to change that.
The hopey changey guy is a liar, and I'd rather have Jeb Bush than another 2nd term of lies.
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