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To: JustPiper

You’re the Engergizer Bunny. Yikes.


2,670 posted on 03/24/2010 12:25:13 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Weakening McCain strengthens our borders, weakens guest worker aka amnesty)
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To: JustPiper

If Obama suddenly rescues health insurance companies from 0-care incompetence, it would be a good idea to remember this:

Blast from the past [1993]

http://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=184

One of the more notorious examples of political blackmail in recent years involved the Clinton administration’s proposals to impose price controls on doctors, hospitals, and the pharmaceutical industry as part of its failed plan for socialized medicine. Once price controls were proposed, reported the New York Times, members of Congress and the president were “receiving vast campaign contributions from the medical industry, an amount apparently unprecedented for a non-election year. [snip]

It was also widely reported at the time that the handlers of Hillary Clinton’s not-so-blind trust were selling her pharmaceutical stocks short every time she made a highly publicized speech demonizing the pharmaceutical industry, which she did quite often. During the Clinton health plan fiasco of 1993-94 the value of pharmaceutical stocks dropped by over $40 billion, according to one account.10 After the industry poured millions of dollars into the coffers of Washington politicians the price-control plan was defeated. [snip]


2,673 posted on 03/24/2010 1:13:33 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Weakening McCain strengthens our borders, weakens guest worker aka amnesty)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Wish that were true friend


2,687 posted on 03/24/2010 11:06:38 AM PDT by JustPiper (Lemme Show You Where It's At ~States that Say "No" To Health Care Reform~)
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