“Private charities? Oh wait, income taxes are charity, right?”
You’re good!
These guys are having a crisis of faith. They are obsessing on the pre-existing condition rule not quite understanding it, but hoping it is a way to cast this bill as a way to destroy insurance companies. After all, where the public option that was going to do this?
They are in a cult. Part of the cult is the odd ideal big business works for their freedom. They really believe that.
“They are in a cult. Part of the cult is the odd ideal big business works for their freedom.”
Ha! Big though businesses may be, at least for now there’s more than one of them. There’s nothing “bigger” than the federal government, which is what the cult opposes. If they happen to help private businesses—which, I realize, would happily cut my throat if there was a profit in it and the government said it was okay—in the process, so be it. And you can say it’s not worth it if you like. but don’t do so by bandying about the word “big.” Because calling business “big” when the conflict is between private competition and centralized direction by the freaking federal government is just plain ridiculous.