Post on Healthcare deserves a re-post

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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Tue Nov-27-07 07:08 PM
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Robbing Kids, the Dying and the Elderly to Pay Medicare HMOs
Edited on Tue Nov-27-07 07:09 PM by McCamy Taylor
Come and listen to a story ‘bout a Texas governor

Didn’t give a damn ‘bout the old, sick or poor,

Some lawmen down in Austin, fed up with HMO greed

Passed the Patient Protection Act, brought them to their knees.



Bush vetoed that sucker, killed it dead.



I guess if the Democrats in Congress were smarter, they would have known better than to mess with W.’s precious managed care industry. The first unpopular thing he ever did as governor in Texas was veto the Patient Protection Act after the legislature was out session, killing managed care reform in that state for two years. Next time around, he had to let it go into law without signing it, since he was considering a presidential run. In 2000, during a debate with Gore he lied and claimed credit for the bill. Later, he would have his Attorney General John Ashcroft successfully shoot it down in federal court. Managed care has always had a friend in George W. Bush.

So, when Congress proposed to finance SCHIP by taking back some of the extra money it is paying Medicare managed care or Advantage plans, that must have made W. see red. Or maybe, green. Lots of corporate giving from the health insurance industry. Lots of favors. Like the one Tom Kean Sr. former 9/11 Panel member and current United Health board member did when he vetted the Hindenburg of GOP propaganda The Path to 9/11. Funny how United Health’s problems with the SEC over backdated filings of options have sort of been put on a back burner ever since Kean did that work on The Path to 9/11. I never could take any Bush administration action against a health insurer too seriously.

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