Posted on 12/22/2009 3:18:10 PM PST by mainstreetradical.com
If you are not sure what is in the healthcare bill, just ask Wall Street. Following news that the Senate had passed its 2700 page health bill, insurance industry stocks shot up. By 11AM the morning after Harry Reid’s middle of the night vote, the big board showed United Health up 4.31%, Aetna up 5.63% CIGNA up 5.89%, Humana up 4.00%, WellPoint up 3.79%, and Coventry Health up 3.91%. (Information taken from www.fivethirtyeight.com)
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Winners Obama, this Congress, and Satan.
How do insurance companies win? They will eventually get screwed.
That’s my question. too. How do insurance companies benefit from being told how to operate and eventually being co-opted by federal oversight panels staffed by anonymous political hires? Do they think they cooperate with the wolf and he eats them last?
Like being taken over by feds has worked so well for the banks (which seem to be fighting back) and for GM...
They win by instantly having millions of additional “customers” who have been forced to buy insurance from them. Just wait until the government decides that all Americans of driving age have to purchase an American made “green” automobile.
This proves once again, that Big Business is as detrimental to freedom as Big Government, Big Union, Big Media and Big Academia. Remember, Hitler and the fascists loved Big Business, which they could control. What they feared was the small, independent businessman, who plied away quietly in the small towns and countryside.
Union Pension funds were the biggest winners.
SEIU took over United Healthcare.
The payoffs to the insurance companies will be short lived as they will be put out of business by Obamacare. Ditto for the AMA and AARP who will see their membership decimated.
I’d like to hear from Jindhal about this!
The only way I know to fight back until the next election is cancelled TV and will never go back. Newspapers are dying but TV is how they control the massesd and smear people like Sarah.
This is what I don’t get. I would think this would be bad for insurance companies. Can anyone explain this to me??
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