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Originally Posted by Gozer
The Republicans may have succeeded.
They saw reform and pissed and moaned until it was unrecognizably watered down, but Obama was so desperate to make a difference that he was willing to pas this abortion of reform.
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I might be wrong, but I thought the bill passed without republican votes? IE democrats didn't need them, so how exactly did republicans water the reform down? The "reform" is 100% on the democrats.
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Originally Posted by Gozer
The basic problem remains unaddressed: the health care - health insurance industry is unregulated and therefore has charges that bear no reasonable relationship to their costs. They FIX prices, and do so only because they hold an exemption from anti trust laws. It's the most stacked deck in all of America.
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You CANNOT be serious. Think what you want about regulation/deregulation but to say that health care industry in the US is unregulated is a joke.