It's not "health care," folks. It's a national business arrangement.
I don’t think it was specifically concocted to enrich insurance companies. It was and is a mechanism to take a crapload of tax, fee, fine and surcharge money out of 17% of this country’s economic engine and divert it to the whim of Obama’s side.
While insurance companies may benefit from this doesn’t make it the reason; they only get whatever boon you think because that’s what it took to buy them off - Just Like AARP, and all the other special interest groups.
Oh, bull crap! The insurance companies, like the overwhelming majority of companies in this country, are run by "short-run thinkers" that never look beyond the next quarterly financial report. Insuarnce companies are looking at this as most businesses would - an opportunity to obtain numerous additional members that will generate revenue. The falacy in their thinking is that the revenue portion will come; it may initially, but it will be at the decision approval of the government.
In the meantime, the government will mandate innumerable changes in the regulations, reporting, delivery methods, and other arbitrary bureaucratic nonsense that will cost the industry billions to implement. This of course means that WE will be paying consistently higher and higher rates for our helathcare. More importantly, at some point these short-sighted nimrods are going to be absorbed by the government, where they will be nothing less than a serving arm of the federal goverment. This law was intended for only one thing... destroy private insurance and drive everyone to a single payer system run by the government, which in turn will be used to control them. All of this initial hemming and hawing is just noise... if it is completely implemented, this country dies.
I think that's called fascism.