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Edited on Fri Dec-18-09 11:54 AM by Armstead
For those who those are looking at the short term, here;s a little thinking ahead for you.
The Democrats push through a mandate for private insurance, and all of the other goodies for the insurance industry.
In the short term, this helps the Republicans immensly. It fits in perfectly with their Corporate Agenda, while the GOP allows the Democrats to get the blame. "See those damn socialist Democrats are forcing you to buy insurance. We tried to stop them."
Meanwhile, the GOP collects their share of the payoffs from big insurance, and gain a defacto victory for "free market" health care, while protesting "Big Glovernment intrusions" in public.
Then when they have a majority sooner or later they are not going to touch those mandates because they will be so embedded, AND they don't want to change them anyway. But they will further build on their "free market" beliefs by removing the few regulations Democrats did put in. "It is unAmerican to restrict the actions of an industry this way."
Heck, they might even eliminate or severely cut back the subsidies as just another form of "Democrat welfare" we can't afford.
Thus the Democrats get the blame while the GOP and their Corporate benefactors reap the rewards.
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