In rare joint letter, insurers say Cruz amendment "unworkable in any form" and will lead to "wide...

[demmiblue]

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Oy vey!

[Tom Rinaldo]

1. Yep. The "sacred" private sector speaking loud and clear

Them and the ANA and the Hospitals and AARP. If the Republicans actually held hearings on their "health care" plans they would actually have to hear testimony from the likes of these.

[Yonnie3]

2. I don't know who I trust less.

The health insurance industry or Cruz.

[Demsrule86]

4. In this instance Cruz...his 'amendment' is a disaster and would lead to the end of healthcare for

millions...even more than the original bill.

[Yonnie3]

6. Indeed n/t

[klook]

3. Republicans hate the fundamental idea of insurance

-- that policyholders whose lives are going swimmingly should subsidize those who are having trouble.

This goes against the precepts laid down by their cruel goddess, Ayn Rand. One of their basic tenets is that the sick, the poor, and the disabled -- especially when they have a lot of eumelanin in their epidermis -- somehow deserve their fate. The well, the wealthy, and the abled have no obligation to lend a hand -- even if that happens in the context of one of the bedrocks of modern capitalist society: insurance.

[Achilleaze]

5. republican plan to cripple American's health care

will find some way to roll over the ugly facts, and pretend Trump Casino-Style Health Care is just the thing (for American proles).

[malaise]

7. Oy My!

That moron continues to be cruzing for a bruising.

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