Every Republican in both Houses voted against Obamacare — even Snowe.

I’m not a fan, but there’s a credible case that once the Supremes toss O-care, Snowe will have been the single congressional Republican most responsible.

1. The dems wanted Snowe’s vote so they could claim it was “bipartisan”.

2. She strung them along for literally months. She almost single-handedly got them to throw out the “public option” in an attempt to snake her vote. Granted, this was painful to watch as we were all sure it was just a precursor to a cave. But there was no cave. In the end, she stood on principle and voted against it.

3. Pelosi and crew passed an even worse bill than Obamacare through the House. This bill had a severability clause/

4. Thanks to Snowe’s delaying, the Senate waited until Christmas to pass what became Obamacare. Since the intention was to conference it with the House bill in order to take the worse parts from both, no one bothered putting a severability clause in the Senate bill, as it was not intended to be a final proposal.

5. In January, Massachusetts elected Scott Brown and turned the Dems’ filibuster-proof majority into a 59-vote one.

6. Realizing they could not get a new bill through the Senate, the House (who had originally scorned the Senate bill for not throwing everyone making over $100k/year into a gulag) had to “deem and pass” it outright, with no changes at all – INCLUDING its lack of a severability clause.

RINOs in the Senate, Harry Reid would have been the minority leader and Republicans would have control over the agenda in Congress. We could have sent a budget to Obama for him to veto. Heck, we could have sent several.

We’d also have control of committees and could launch either separate investigations – or joint investigations – into Fast and Furious and the Energy Dept handing out money like dope to Obama supporters.

Demanding hard line conservatives in purple/blue states instead of people who will vote with us most of the time is an act of utter stupidity.

In a state like Indiana, it makes sense to stand up to a Lugar because the state is generally more conservative than he is and – most importantly – we have an outstanding candidate who took him out and who should win in November. We have NEITHER of those things in places like Maine or Massachusetts.

Your whole concept, with respect to Snowe specifically, is factually challenged, see sarg01′s pointed list. In addition, Snowe (and Collins) has never taken the lead to oppose positions we conservatives favor. Does she vote in opposition to us once in a while? Certainly. However, she’s never provided either the leadership or the deciding vote on any issue that was a priority to conservatives. She’s a follower and since Arlen Specter went away she’s had no one to follow.

You just don’t have a clue, do you.

not humiliate anyone so I have nothing to fear.

Which won’t be any time soon.

I never claimed to be smart.
But I ain’t stupid.

the IQ would still surpass yours easily. It is cool though you finally learned how to turn on your computer without any help. Reach for the stars………….

your version of “pooled’ insurance, but if I am correct that you mean where a group of people gather together to get a policy for them all, you would be wrong that it drives up cost. Let me explain:

I have insurance on myself and everyone else at the company. We pay a percent of the cost, the rest is deducted from the employee pay every pay check. They are given multiple options from single coverage to family coverage, just medical to everything, and from silver plans to gold plans. Each represents a different cost and different coverage.

All the plans have certain criteria, kids are covered under the family plan until either 18 I believe or till they graduate college or 26 whichever comes first. Any signs of illicit drugs during blood work while under care, coverage is terminated. Suicide causes the life insurance to be voided. And so on.

We have every age, sex, nationality, and health type in the company. There is not a single person there that could get the same coverage for the price they get it via the company even if they had to pay the company share. So the cost is much cheaper for the consumer because we have bought in mass.

As to the insurance companies, they fight every renewal period for our business because it is a cash cow for them. The markup on family is amazingly high and yet most of the families seldom need the coverage due to kids never getting sick or injured. The few employees that do need the insurance are more than covered by the many who do not and year after year never use it. But to say, person A pays for person B maybe accurate in the most strictest of senses, but because person A, B, C, D, ..H>>>>>Z and on have bundled together to buy a plan, the overall cost to every person is much cheaper.

This is why pooling is an awesome way to gain insurance especially in the non employee way. Like minded people who have similar lifestyles can join together to get bundled plans bringing down the individual cost. Since you can determine guidelines with the issuing insurance agent, premium increases can be avoided at the signing of the contract if private pooling individuals do their homework upfront.

The only way pooling could be cheaper for both the individual and the group is if regulations were lifted so that health insurance could be sold across state lines causing more competition hence even lower prices.

All this applies unless of course I do not understand what you mean by pooling which is a very good possibility.