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Live Free -- And Uninsured

J.93 Wrote: Jul 05, 2012 2:17 PM
The second series of INFOMERCIAL's should show who is GETTING all this extra MONEY. Dr's....hmmm? Hospitals? hmmmm?, Pharmaceuticals????? (kinda like BIG BUSINESS isn;t it). GE....(don't forget what they have in the pot), and oh yes...the INSURANCE companies... This will be a MESS....ooppss already is a MESS.

In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare"), NPR's "Talk of the Nation" held a seminar of sorts at the Aspen Institute's legendarily pretentious Ideas Festival. Someone in the audience asked NPR health policy correspondent Julie Rovner this question: "Today's decision is a positive decision for the estimated 50 million uninsured Americans. Who are the losers today?"

Rovner seemed to struggle to find losers. She came up with insurance companies that want the so-called individual mandate -- now a punitive tax, according to the Supreme Court -- to be much more punitive. After thinking...

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