Reply #138: the donut hole reduction helps my in-laws

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we only have the donut because of *'s big pharma give away. I was against FORCING people as CAPTIVE CONSUMERS to auto insurance without having an alternative. California attempted to pass a proposition where everyone was minimally insured and the private insurance companies covered the rest. It was so that the working poor could still afford transportation. I consider driving a privilege, not a right, unlike health. The insurance companies spent millions to defeat that proposition. Ya know, they're just so concerned about our well being over their own pocket book.

Now, I may have the government FORCING my family to buy private insurance without a CHOICE for public option. It looks like to me, they've just stolen Romney's pro-corporate insurance schtick. I am not a rah-rah-rah corporate free-market cheerleader. As a matter of fact, I don't really believe that now days there's much of a FREE market. It's a controlled pricing market, where the corporations control the price--and if any small entity steps out of line, they usually pay the price.

So, I am not jumping up and down with joy for the prospect of being forced to buy a piece of shite from the health corps so they can make even more obscene money while giving us a shitty policy that we may never use because the deduction will probably be too high for the policy we could afford.

We'll see the final bill--but I bet after the Senate gets done with it--it will be more crappy-screwing us even more while giving the insurance corps even more power. They couldn't take the easy way of medicare for all--no, they had to pacify their greed buddies, wall street and the insurance industry over us.