Posted on 07/21/2016 9:24:34 AM PDT by Renkluaf
They (the mergers) put at risk the system that Americans across the country rely on to pay for their healthcare – threatening to increase insurance premiums, reduce benefits, lower the quality of healthcare, and slow innovation.
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The jokes just write themselves.
Yup. But they are hoping that Americans are too stupid to realize this.
And what happens the all of insurance providers go out of business and “merge” into a single payer system? But apparently that doesn’t count.
The Obola administration has delivered it’s pre-planned double-cross to cripple Healthcare insurance company Affordable Care Act collaborators.
Everything is going according to plan to move us toward single payer.
Next step:
Cause another planned crash of the economy which will result in mass amounts of newly unemployed desperate for gov’t single-payer Healthcare insurance.
RE: “Isn’t this what Obamacare has already done?”
4 companies should withdraw all offers etc and revise this in 2017 when hopefully the DOJ will be revamped from the top down
The DOJ/#BLM merger isn’t working out well for America.
The same way that merging telephone companies and banks resulted in more services and at lower costs, which led to greater productivity and profits for the customer?
Why aren’t they arresting real criminals, like the Clintons?
Of course, if the companies are merging for survival of the companies and will fail if they don’t merge, that won’t raise rates or reduce access. Sure.
Merging telephone companies has resulted in slower and unreliable communication in America. It slows down commerce, health care and on and on. We need one reasonably regulated phone system.
Merging banks has resulted in banks too big to fail operating like tyrants.
Profits for banks. Middle class no.
Single payer, when it comes, will be far more expensive to all taxpayers and even to the non-taxpayers as most of the resources of the nation go into paying for the millions of bureaucrats trying to force a rapidly diminishing set of competent doctors to serve in the government clinics. Those who don’t pay taxes and feel that the medical system is free will pay with their lives and health and will pay the ever escalating prices of everything else.
Eff øbama and his “care”.
“The government demands!....”
How old are you? Really?
BTW, my response has nothing to do with your maturity....
The real damning issue is why is the DOJ looking through the political lense and not the legal lense....
Oh wait, it’s Obama’s DOJ......
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hmmmm.....very curious, this is.
I thought the Obamacare end-game was to start forcing insurers to merge until we only got down to 6 or 8 of them. Then it’s a simple matter of handing out golden parachute packages to a relatively small number of key executives, and Uncle Sam can walk in and take over.
This makes me think they have something else in mind.
I like! =^)
Regarding unconstitutional Obamacare, note that previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified the following about the fed’s constitutionally limited powers.
Regardless what lawless Obama’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices want everybody to think about the constitutionality of the Obamacare insurance mandate for example, the Supreme Court had previously clarified that the states never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate insurance.
"4. The issuing of a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce within the meaning of the latter of the two clauses, even though the parties be domiciled in different States, but is a simple contract [emphasis added] of indemnity against loss.” - Paul v. Virginia, 1869.
Corrections, insights welcome.
Below are clarifications by previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare purposes.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]" - Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass." -Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
"Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously [emphases added] beyond the power of Congress." - Linder v. United States, 1925.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. ...” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
What Obamacare has shown us is that all three branches of the federal government are corrupt.
Remember in November !
Patriots need to support Trump by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes and unconstitutional federal interference in state affairs as evidenced by Obamacare.
Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
The same thing happened to California when they forced through law, auto insurance people to lower their rates down to around 20 years before the current law change. It chased a large number of insurers out of the state and clobbered revenue for the state and forced insurance companies to not be able to write policies with services in them. Everyone became an assigned risk no matter what your driving record because the insurers could no longer support lower priced policies. They were going broke.
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