Reply #99: Facile rationalizations [View All]

So skip the public option completely then? I suppose we don't really need it. Far better to go with some kind of absurd corporate welfare nonsense that puts tons of money in the hands of the insurance company.


You know there is something your blue dog friends really haven't gambled or put much thought into and that is the back end of this. Private mandates and little tiny fixes that force the working class to assume the burden. Hooray! Like we haven't covered two wars and what not rather completely and like we haven't been pillaged by Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and to bail out banks so yeah we should definitely take the whole thing on the chin with NO extra taxes for billionaire CEO's that propagated this sick and sicker for profit system in the first place.

But in the future the mandates and injection of federal money to for profit insurance companies will be like bribing bandits. They will grow hungrier and fatter on our tax dollars.

Ultimately my question is "Why should they profit off of tax money spent to provide for those that have nothing? Why should anyone profit from this."