Whistleblower: Insurance Industry Doesn't Want Affordable Care Act Repealed, It Wants Democrats Defe

[babsbunny]

Whistleblower: Insurance Industry Doesn't Want Affordable Care Act Repealed, It Wants Democrats Defeated- 03/29/12

http://www.laborradio.org/Channels/Story.aspx?ID=1677798

By Doug Cunningham

Wendell Potter spent 20 years as top executive with CIGNA. He wrote “Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans”. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has the Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act - with a decision expected in June - the insurance industry whistleblower says the industry’s real goal is not to repeal the law, but to defeat Democrats in November.

[Wendell Potter]: “They don’t want the bill - quite honestly - to be overturned or repealed. They want the bill to go forward with the individual mandate intact. But what they want to do is to get people to vote out the Democrats who voted for the bill so that they’ll have more friends in Congress to strip out the consumer protections.”

[MadHound]

1. Of course they don't want the bill defeated,

Obama and the Dems gave them a mandated monopoly, a cash cow that will never stop. As far as consumer protections, what consumer protections. The price controls in the ACA are a joke.

[Confusious]

2. If the mandate goes through

And the protections get repealed, we will be fucked like no one has been fucked before.

They can charge out the wazoo, and you will be required BY LAW to pay.

You think insurance is bad now, just wait. I would bet they'll be investing in debtors prisons.

[TheWraith]

5. Don't you ever get tired of the Obama-bashing bullshit?

Yeah, there's no consumer protections. That's why the insurance industry has spent BILLIONS of dollars either trying to prevent it from becoming law, or trying to gut it after the fact.

[AzDar]

3. K & R

[ProSense]

4. Interesting

(Wendell Potter): “They don’t want the bill - quite honestly - to be overturned or repealed. They want the bill to go forward with the individual mandate intact. But what they want to do is to get people to vote out the Democrats who voted for the bill so that they’ll have more friends in Congress to strip out the consumer protections.”

Potter says for-profit health insurers are killing health health care and their unsustainable system will implode within a few years. That’s the view he got from the CIGNA corporate ladder.

...perspective. Potter is basically saying that the mandate is so unpopular that Republicans believe it will help them. If the law is struck down, it's not good for Republicans, which implies that they know the other parts of the law are popuplar.

Summary: Republicans are hoping to ride the unpopularity of the mandate to a victory so that they can destroy the health care reforms.

Potter also reiterated his belief that insurance companie will implode.

Wendell Potter Agrees: Big-Profit Health Insurance Almost Dead
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002390746