So Kathleen Sebelius says they are collecting the information on insurance cos for the 80/20

p.s. I know that 'some' folks have been griping that Obama's reforms did not go far enough, but I think that in the long run we will see that his reforms will be a HUGE change from what there was a year ago

they should have to pay interest at 20%

The vast majority of americans will see no change at all. My costs have gone up, not down. The White House predicts the cost of CARE will continue to rise at 7% per year.

But I'll wait with bated breath for my rebate check.

...and no one at DU noticed, did he still cap health insurance company profits?

He capped their profit margins. They can still generate just as much profit as they can, as long as it is only 15% of their total expenditures. So they have little incentive to keep health care costs down, and little to control premiums.

...that's better than them taking 30% off the top, no?

not on profits. You do understand the difference right? Not to mention how that difference is significant in the way it could affect your health CARE costs?

But that's still a cap - on percent margins. A cap on the dollar profits would likely produce an even more dramatic backlash from the health insurance industry.

I think we can all agree that what Obama has done is better than what we have had before. I could go into great detail on this but that would probably degenerate into the "well he could have gotten single-payer if he had asked for it" type counter-factual argument.

--expect a lot of bullshit reclassification of administrative nonsense as "care." Regulation by mandated MLR has abjectly failed in 15 states. Why does anyone think it will work now?

Glad that you think that the utter failure of states to regulate costs through MLR is so funny. The dead and bankrupt sure don't.

i went to the hospital er the other day in a distant city...insurance? ...no medicare..card?... ?...oh, i can look up your ss number.

two weeks i`ll have 0 co-pay.