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If we bail out the insurance companies then we have a de-facto single payer program. The insurance companies are essentially reduced to well paid administrators of the government directed program and premiums are actually just taxes.

[Buckeye McFrog]

If we bail out the insurance companies then we have a de-facto single payer program. The insurance companies are essentially reduced to well paid administrators of the government directed program and premiums are actually just taxes.

No doubt this is the deal Obama cut with them behind closed doors in order to get them to hold back the Harry and Louise ads.