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Healthcare insurers get upper hand
L.A. Times ^ | 08/24/2009 | Tom Hamburger

Posted on 08/24/2009 9:19:57 AM PDT by fiscon1

Reporting from Washington - Lashed by liberals and threatened with more government regulation, the insurance industry nevertheless rallied its lobbying and grass-roots resources so successfully in the early stages of the healthcare overhaul deliberations that it is poised to reap a financial windfall.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: healthinsurance; lobbyists; obama

1 posted on 08/24/2009 9:19:57 AM PDT by fiscon1
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To: fiscon1
the insurance industry nevertheless rallied its lobbying and grass-roots resources so successfully in the early stages of the healthcare overhaul deliberations that it is poised to reap a financial windfall

So that's why the protesters on the right were bused in and had identical, machine printed signs... no, wait, that was the left. The right hand-wrote their signs and had to drive in.

2 posted on 08/24/2009 9:24:03 AM PDT by KarlInOhio ("I can run wild for six months ...after that, I have no expectation of success" - Admiral Obama-moto)
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To: KarlInOhio
"So that's why the protesters on the right were bused in and had identical, machine printed signs... no, wait, that was the left. The right hand-wrote their signs and had to drive in. "

Reality is so irrelevant to those believe Democrat ideology soundly trumps it.

3 posted on 08/24/2009 10:14:55 AM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American (E)
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4 posted on 08/24/2009 11:13:54 AM PDT by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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