From a stock investment advice site:"Watch Out for a Backlash on the Lieberman Maneuver"

Thought it would be interesting to hear from a non-political site (with an obnoxious pro-industry attitude) with an obvious interest in HCR:

(ignore the smug, greed-motivated tone of the article, but they know it's not really over-- and we shouldn't either)

http://www.benzinga.com/64829/watch-out-for-a-backlash-on-the-lieberman-maneuver

"A lot of health care investors a breathing a sigh of relief around the shape of the Senate bill. I think the idea that the public option and/or the prospect of bring health care age limits down 10 years has got a lot of people ticked off.

This has a lot of folks sounding the all clear signal safe in the knowledge that this bill has a short fuse on it, and nothings going to get done that really hurts investments in this space. However, next year is another story. A budget reconciliation move that does not require 60 votes is quite viable. If the torch laden villagers start to get antsy the game can change in an instant. In short, even if the very tame existing version of the health care reform bill passes, the game isn't over."
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I think we need to already begin to work on seeing that reconciliation to open Medicare becomes a popular idea among progressives in Congress in the coming weeks. Let's put the scare back into those "investors'" hearts.

See for example:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7238914
OR
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=58864&mesg_id=58864

and some of us actually fell for it, hoping something would change.
Instead, they dragged out the theatrics and Lieberman was their shill .
the champagne corks popped all night in the homes of insurance company CEOs

god, why am I so naieve to hope for anything changing?

--the pitchforks and guillotines. Or even maybe a trigger option, if we line people like this and all the insurance CEOs up against a wall first.

:mad: