[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]By all means, read the whole article. It makes the most sense of anything I've read on the ACA decision so far.

That argument sounds good but there's a poison pill in the healthcare bill that goes something like this, and this is a quote from another article on this site (http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002894046): "a provision of the law, called the medical loss ratio, that requires health insurance companies to spend 80% of the consumers’ premium dollars they collect—85% for large group insurers—on actual medical care rather than overhead, marketing expenses and profit. Failure on the part of insurers to meet this requirement will result in the insurers having to send their customers a rebate check representing the amount in which they underspend on actual medical care." I would say that's why the repugs are so upset. There are so many parts of the new law that actually benefit people in many different ways.

If it were all about money for insurance companies then:

1. Scalia, Thomas and the rest of the conservative Justices would have been for it.
2. The Republicans would not be sh**ing themselves right now--and they are freaking out! It's not just about Obama winning. Their corporate overlords are MAD!
3. Insurance companies would not have spent over $100M to secretly turn the American public against it.

Like the last poster said, the 20/80 "poison pill" provision was ingenius. I think that's why the insurance companies supported ACA at first and then did an abrupt about-face. They found out about all if the added consumer protections.

BWAHAHAHAHA! Well played, Mr. Obama!

and continue to scream bloody murder about it, no doubt giving R's plenty o' dough for the election.

But yeah, they secretly wanted it.

Uh-huh.

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Julie

They wanted the mandate. Now that they got it, they are switching their support to Republicans in order to eliminate such consumer protection provisions as made it through.

They got their mandate, and now in the next Repuke Congress will overturn all of the bad parts (for Big Insurance). And of course upholding it, they get all the Hate Radio idiots frothing at the mouth from now until November.