[Fightin Whitey]

Which is why I cannot understand why the insurance industry supported this travesty.

I think it's because they saw a windfall position for themselves not so much as insurance providers but as middlemen between the health care industry and the government.

I don't know how they keep their spot on the gravy train once the feds take over everything, unless it is as a kind of consultant/facilitator/kickback industry...which of course is how the rest of Washington runs.

[okie01]

I don't know how they keep their spot on the gravy train once the feds take over everything, unless it is as a kind of consultant/facilitator/kickback industry...which of course is how the rest of Washington runs.

Consider the role of insurance companies in Medicare: Offering supplemental insurance to cover the 20% that Medicare doesn't cover.

There is a lot of competition in the market, so itis pressumably profitable, even though coverage cannot be denied.

[cynwoody]

I don't know how they keep their spot on the gravy train once the feds take over everything

What was it Lenin said about capitalists and hemp?