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I thought insurance companies were evil

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 10th, 2010 at 01:20 PM  | 

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$436,000,000,000

 

Total tax credits payable directly to insurance companies included in the Senate health care bill, according to the Congressional Budget Office score and language in Section 1412(c) of H.R. 3590 (page 291).

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  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    The main stand being…….. Well, let’s use this for an excellent example:

    The Progressive Insurance Company.

    Not exactly health insurance, but still, I think it’s a good idea and starting point.

    I’m hit-and miss the rest of the day for being online, so how’s about someone with a bit of time on their hands check into the above mentioned Insurance company and their executive’s and board member’s monetary and other contributions to the current administration’s campaign.

    I thnk you’ll find the results rather enlightening.

    I also think you’ll find the next ‘big’ somethingorother the administration will go after is auto and other motorized vehicle insurance – with The Progressive Insurance Company listed by the administration as the perfect and shining example of how to do it right. In fact, they do it so right, that the current administration willunfortunately need to make The Progressive Insurance Company the sole insurer of all motorized vehicles in America. Special discounts for electric vehicles and government employeed (excluding military, of course).

    Gee, I sound a tad cynical. I wonder why ?

    Cheers !

  • http://www.neoavatara.com/blog neoavatara

    when they are ripping off pure little individuals.

    When they are ripping off the government, they are just another Democrat interest group.

  • mkozikowski

    Agree that auto insurance is a rough ride for the young or accident prone.

    But I believe that the next ‘Take Over” by our Govt will be Life Insurance.

    Let’s face it, the rates are really high and the payouts are just not in line with the rate.

    We are entitled to be insured for our lives, as we give so much to so many each day we live. The least they can do is pay us back for our effort.

    So, I propose that we take a little out of each person’s pay (or welfare check), OK maybe a lot from each. But just think of the return!
    You will give, over your life, say $100,000.00 and when you die, you will get back $50,000.00.
    But on the way you will have helped so many others who are less, or more fortunate

  • acslater

    Hate to say it, but this is the main reason why Democrat wingers like the public option so much. Meanwhile, gun to your head, if you knew a health bill would pass, and you could choose between something that looked like the House’s bill, and something that looked like the Senate’s bill, which one would you pick? I think it’s pretty clear the answer is “Senate”. It’s more than a little intellectually dishonest to criticize the Dems for compromising their principled hatred of insurance companies in order to make the bill incrementally more acceptable to people like us.

  • dio55

    So says Rep Paul Ryan about an hour ago on fox news according to his latest head count.
    Somone please give some good news so that we may continue to at least HOPE

  • Viet71

    a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.

  • eburke
  • CincoSolas_del_Bronx

    for being such a fine man in the wrong party, but his face, voice, anecdotes, decorum and gentle humor were the first to convince me that Republicans were not necessarily always evil beings.

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    and I guess i am too.

    Have to give it up for a guy who fought against LBJ and the whole liberal establishment when it was at the height of it’s powers.

  • CincoSolas_del_Bronx

    but I remember Mom especially–a principled New Englander–gritting her teeth whenever Dirksen came on TV, especially late in the war, and saying “You have to love that man, but I’ll never understand how he can live with being a Republican!”

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    His dad was a big union guy and Democrat true believer, and he grew up with the same ideas, but over time he saw how wicked the Democrat agenda really was, Now he is even more right wing than me!

  • Michael Dugas

    You sure you’re at the right web sight? There’s NOTHING principled about this administration nor the majority leadership and they pretty much OWN intellectual dishonesty though I am loathe to use the word intellectual in ant sentence that refers to Democrats.
    I also noticed in your one other post you were willing to “forgive” the media for their treatment of Bunning and his objection to that highways and unemployment extension bill. There was NO reason for Reid to require a unanimous consent on that since a simple majority was all that was needed. That was pure politics on Reid’s part hoping there would be an objection so he could claim the Republicans didn’t want people to get their checks. But I really think you know that, actually I really think your booking for troll status…. just sayin’.

  • CincoSolas_del_Bronx

    For a few years my Dad was president of the UBCJA local that covered the state of VT, but I never heard him mention politics in relation to the union–its focus was equipping tradesmen to bring the state into the 20th C. His politics was shaped more by civil rights sympathies (eg he saw to it that the entire adult male black population of our town learned carpentry–which I believe Mr. M. actually did quite well with) and an unending frustration with being unable to reconcile in his own person having called out coordinates and fuse lengths for V-1s heading into Antwerp with watching hours-old footage of boys being loaded onto Hueys during his dinner rendezvous with Mssrs. Huntley and Brinkley. The first and only person I heard him curse as a child was Kruschev. There was brief excitement about carrying a Give Peace A Chance outside Bob Stafford’s office one snowy Saturday, but then McGovern lost and life moved on.

    He couldn’t understand Reagan’s policies, but at least respected the man. Nor did he once spurn me when I veered from Walter Mitty commie/hippie/draft dodger (too chicken, too 4-F, too young, too late) to theo/poli conservative. Many of those Greatest Generation Dems could teach today’s a thing or two about what “liberal” really means.