It is time to stop negotiating with terrorists........

[marmar]

from the Politico:



Insurers face blowback after report
By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN | 10/12/09 6:53 PM EDT


In the health care reform debate, where playing nice has been the rule, a scathing insurance industry report looked to critics Monday like a grenade aimed at scuttling progress in Congress.

But it also looked to some like too little, too late.

Not only did the report land many months into the debate — with Democrats on the cusp of passing bills through five committees — it infuriated some of the very people the industry group hoped to influence.

“I don’t view the impact of the report as a bill-stopper as much as a bill-changer,” said Robert Blendon, a health policy pollster and political analyst at Harvard University. “The momentum is way too far , and there is a sense out there that something has to be done.”

On the eve of a crucial vote in the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday, the industry group, America’s Health Insurance Plans, raced against the White House and Senate Democrats to frame the 26-page analysis conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, which concluded that premiums would cost more under the Finance Committee legislation than under the current system.

White House and Senate officials hinted at the possibility of legislative payback for releasing a report Democrats described as deeply flawed and self-serving. At the very least, officials said, it will help Democrats close ranks behind the Finance Committee bill, which had come under fire from the progressives as too moderate. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28213.html#

[annabanana]

1. That report is nothing less than EXTORTION. . . Listen, see. .

you come near our fat profits and you'll be sorry, see..

Gangsters, threatening the American people... that's all they are.

[yurbud]

2. why would this make Democrats close ranks on the insurance company drafted bill?

[gratuitous]

3. Whatwhatwhat?!

"In the health care reform debate, where playing nice has been the rule . . ."

What in hell has Carrie Budoff Brown been smoking? Did she just wake up from a 30-year nap? Where and when has anyone been "playing nice" in the health care reform debate? She doesn't remember the screaming matches at the town halls in August? People toting guns to demonstrations against health care reform? "You lie!" shouted by Addison Graves Wilson during a presidential address to a joint session of Congress?

Holy flirking schnit, that's out to lunch!

[Quantess]

4. Here's rec #5