[kearnyirish2]

“Where were the insurance companies when Obama was selling the country on this mess?”

Funding the fight to pass the law; they thought it would simply guarantee them millions of new (often involuntary) customers. At that point the government was supposed to buy them out.

[Jane Long]

(Ins Co's were...) Funding the fight to pass the law; they thought it would simply guarantee them millions of new (often involuntary) customers. At that point the government was supposed to buy them out.

I originally thought that, too. Now, I wonder if they were in it, to begin it, knowing that - ultimately - they'd not only receive a bail-out, but be included (benefactors) in the *fundamental transformation* of our healthcare system to single payer.