7 Good Reasons to KILL THE PUNISHING MANDATE TO BUY PRIVATE INSURANCE

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7 Good Reasons to KILL THE PUNISHING MANDATE TO BUY PRIVATE INSURANCE, not the rest of the bill, just the mandate.

1) The mandate will not lower insurance prices. Big insurance will simply put their mandated profits into their own pockets. (http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:k2pZl0sNatwJ:hcfan.3cdn.net/578b1f7456962bfa7a_r6m6bhcjn.pdf+health+insurance+profits+statistics&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESh56pwmgB8l5InQ2t3oc7xLJEKE_v3HcGcpjJCFRUUVoHvN6YTCn6HsoZB-XIB7BDtzTUy3op8sk6yRKSvOOFylzqT7CYnyUNhj_f0IcKrGMcOH5CF8C1c4sVZeG1T1b3E4dYGK&sig=AHIEtbSW2Ts_zshh87DW8WRvqIlk4XlaFA)

2) "Covering pre-existing conditions" is now law, as is an "end to rescission". Rest assured, by mandating trillions to big insurance, we will simply be giving them the money they need to crush these elements of reform in the bill, indeed they have already started too. (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jYnajhWrPEXihcCrpRNfUKN7rN-AD9EKM4O05)

3) There are no studies or evidence to prove that big insurance will suffer in the least by being forced to cover pre-existing without the mandate, just idle speculation from industry types about "Actuarial Tables", with no real substance.

4) If we are lucky enough that big insurance does indeed go belly-up, we can then institute single-payer and take these crooks out of the mix. Remember, these are the same companies who have allowed children to die rather than pay out rightful calims (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22357873/).

5) The mandate will bring a flood of insurance scams and fly by night insurers that will charge cheap rates to cover nothing. (http://www.usinsuranceonline.com/news/article/new-law-brings-health-insurance-scams-19709083)

6) By killing the mandate, we get the best of both worlds - Insurance reform without punishing average Americans. Independents will return to us in November, the Republicans and tea-partiers will have the wind taken out of their sails since the mandate is the thing they dislike the most about the bill.

7) we will avoid the costly constitutional challenges from states Attorneys Generals, and dismantle their main arguments in their cases. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-bergthold/repeal-health-care-reform_b_568472.html)