These companies have become agencies of the government, who forced millions of people into their “stores”; why would they not be allies?
Oh Yeah, please cut your premiums for now, then after the election...
Also; the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; the Original Legislative Fraud that also needs more investigative reporting.
The Dems aren’t socialists; they are corporatists. They would prefer to organize society into a small number of hierarchical interest groups: labor, industry, government, racial identity groups, etc. Then the elite leaders of these groups can bargain on behalf of their subjects. At least, that’s how corporatism works in theory.
Surprise, surprise. Obama and Democrats are in bed with the crony capitalist health insurance companies.
Yes, at our expense.
Like two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Only the willfully blind and completely stupid, actually believe that only Republicans are trying to help big-business!
In every Presidential election year, for the last 20 years, the Democrats have pulled more donations from Wall Street than Republicans! So, tell me who is for big business?!?!
As for the Obamacare crap, the Democrats FORCED Americans to purchase their products - OF COURSE the insurance companies are going to do everything they can to keep that gravy train running! If government forced everyone to buy buggy whips, we would all still be buying them (probably would have upped our annual quotas) and those manufacturers would STILL BE PUMPING D.C. with money and whores!!!
Great posts. Fascism…er crony socialism. What is insurance? The socialization of risk. The tangled web of totalitarians, totalitariancare (force, fraud).
Just like anyone who tries to run a deli or a tavern in the city of Chicago can attest...
I’ve been in insurance for 17 years.
Saying insurers are friends of Obamacare is like saying bees are friendly to bears; there is a relationship based upon a commodity, but one entity continually gets the sh!tty end of the stick.
Obama has gutted the insurance industry.
The goals is the end of employer funded health insurance. Corporate America desperately wants out from under that yoke. But first they had to make sure the insurance companies would still have customers by forcing us to buy their product after our employers stop providing it. And here we are.
United Healthcare is making a fortune off Obamacare.
Do any NYT readers ask themselves where this "mutual profit" is coming from. The victims of Obamacare know - it's coming from the insurance premiums of ordinary middle-class Americans who now have to subsidize the hobbies of women like Sandra Fluke, the mental illness of people who are confused on their gender, and other unnecessary expenses.