Did anyone believe for a minute they were endorsing this monstrosity on it's merits? 
- The American Medical Association (AMA) was facing a pending 21% cut in physicians' reimbursements under the current law. Obama promised to kill the cut if they backed his bill... thus sparking outrage from the many doctors, who preferred the huge pay cut to living with ObamaCare, apparently.
- The AARP got a financial windfall in return for its support of the healthcare bill... which explains what this group -which has morphed into a huge insurance company- endorsed ObamaCare against the wishes of a majority of it's members. Now -if this bill becomes law- the elderly will have to pay more for coverage under Medigap... but the AARP -which supposedly represents them- will make more money.
- The drug industry has backed ObamaCare and, in return, got a 10-year limit of $80 billion on cuts in prescription drug costs. (nothing for them, they project cca $3 trillion total cost over the next decade.)
- Insurance companies got access to 40 million potential new customers. But when the Senate Finance Committee lowered the fine that would be imposed on those who don't buy insurance from $3,500 to $1,500, the insurance companies jumped ship and now oppose the bill...
The only relevant industry that refused to surrender to the thuggish Obama and crew was the medical device makers... they took a principled stand and refused the Dear Leader's extortion attempts.
So the Senate Finance Committee retaliated by imposing a tax on medical devices such as automated wheelchairs, pacemakers, arterial stents, prosthetic limbs, artificial knees and hips and other necessary accoutrements of healthcare.
Not to mention how they bought votes via the most anti-democratic methods/borderline fraud imaginable- Exhibit A being how Pelosi's handpicked lackey Bill Owens was bankrolled and apparently instructed to make disingenuous pledges in the NY-23 special election -specifically claiming opposition to the public option- only to break four campaign promises in his first hour on the Hill and vote for PelosiCare anyway.
Of course he will be tossed out in a year by an angry and regretful constituency, and mor likely than not replaced by Doug Hoffman... but Owens will get some cush job or retainer from the Dems for this appalling treachery and just fade-away... what does he care, he's already shown us he's a morally bankrupt opportunist who doesn't mind lying to your face when he thinks it serves his purposes.
Of course he will be tossed out in a year by an angry and regretful constituency, and mor likely than not replaced by Doug Hoffman... but Owens will get some cush job or retainer from the Dems for this appalling treachery and just fade-away... what does he care, he's already shown us he's a morally bankrupt opportunist who doesn't mind lying to your face when he thinks it serves his purposes.
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