Comments on: House Judiciary, Sens. Schumer, Reid Call for Break Up of Insurance Trust

By: bugsger

bugsger — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:43:58 +0000

Nevermind-found it:

Sponsor: Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]

Cosponsors:

Maria Cantwell [D-WA]
Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Russell Feingold [D-WI]
Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]
Claire McCaskill [D-MO]
Harry Reid [D-NV] Charles Schumer [D-NY]
Arlen Specter [D-PA]
Ron Wyden [D-OR]

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-1681

Must thank Cantwell.

By: bugsger

bugsger — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:35:35 +0000

Do we know who the 8 cosponsors are?

TIA

By: cbl2

cbl2 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:58:28 +0000

I have said from the jump ( and may have included it in my last diary) that threatening them with anti-trust accoutability and regulation is where I would have started negotiations with these folks. even if I knew I had no intention of ever following through, I’d a squeezed ‘em for a PO through whipping on ‘em with Sherman

that it was not the path taken says so much about those doing the negotiations

By: Knut

Knut — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:27:43 +0000

This is big. Bigger than the Public Option from the standpoint of the Insurance Trust. This hits the bottom line, and especially the stock options of Insurance company executives. Obama’s response to the doublecross. Make my day! The lobbyists now have to fight on two fronts: to deflect the public option and stop the anti-trust exemption. They will cave on public option to keep the exemption. I’d like to see them lose both.

By: JamesJoyce

JamesJoyce — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:01:46 +0000

About fucking time the corrupt and protected corporate slime “health insurers” are “outed” for the self serving discriminating “pieces of shit” they are!

Health Insurance corporations are the very threat Jefferson identified, to Life and Liberty! If lawmakers and policy makers are incapable of seeing the similarities to slave owners and segregationist, they must be blinded, by the do ray me!

The corporate insurers operating at state levels are usurping constitutional law under the color of law. They are a threat to every Americans liberty and Life! Ask a slave?? Involuntary servitude to scumbag corporations is not an option in America and Americans will not kow tow to this egregious scum buggery at the behest of corporate scum! Mandate this Max the ass! “1 finger”

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:41:58 +0000

Of course any repeal of the antitrust exemption will only have practical benefit for citizen-consumers if regulation is passed and actually enforced by Federal agencies and the DoJ. Given the strength of the Corporatist bent within the administration, I’d give that 50-50 at best.

By: richardharris44

richardharris44 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:25:15 +0000

ADAM SMITH’S CORPSE JUST TRIED TO SIT UP AND SAY “WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY HAD A MONOPOLY? YOU KNUCKLEHEADS. I EXPLAINED THIS STUFF TO YOU OVER 200 YEARS AGO.”

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:11:47 +0000

I see it the same way.
And how fun will it be to watch the GOPers rail on about ‘free markets’ while they vote against breaking up healthCo monopolies?

I’m putting extra butter on my popcorn for that one.

I hope this is ‘payback and f*ck you’ from the Dems to the healthCos that are bullying them while screwing the rest of us.

By: TheLeftNut

TheLeftNut — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:30:37 +0000

Make sure you give it a good twist when you stick it to them, Schumy Baby.

By: james

james — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:18:18 +0000

There’s always skype