Tenuous truce with White House has turned quickly into an all-out battle
For months, President Obama and his administration waged their fight for a health-care overhaul without a clear opponent, even courting the industry executives and interest groups that helped kill reform efforts 15 years ago.
But attacks on the leading Democratic reform plan this week by the insurance lobby left little doubt that two of the most powerful institutions involved in the debate — the White House and America's insurance companies — have abandoned any real hope of forging a compromise. What was a tenuous truce has turned quickly into an all-out battle, with both sides ratcheting up the hostilities and their rhetoric.
As the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday approved a broad, 10-year, $829 billion bill to remake the nation's health-care system, Obama's top advisers and the insurers moved into a new, more intense stage of conflict.
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Big surprize here. Insurance companies are fleecing the public. Act now, support the public option.
Hold up, I thought "Obamacare" was a big payoff to the insurers. I'm not sure which hype to believe now.
the public option will force employers to drop their company plans and put everybody on the goverment social program because you cant compete with companies that do not make a profit and have an unlimited source of income ,our money.once again we are being punished for having jobs and doing for ourselves instead of being malcontemts living off the backs of others
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