Health Insurers Pour Money into GOP Campaigns, Hoping to Limit New Regulations

[Francesca9]

Source: LA Times

The insurance industry is pouring money into Republican campaign coffers in hopes of scaling back wide-ranging regulations in the new healthcare law but preserving the mandate that Americans buy coverage.

Since January, the nation's five largest insurers and the industry's Washington-based lobbying arm have given three times more money to Republican lawmakers and political action committees than to Democratic politicians and organizations.

That is a marked change from 2009, when the industry largely split its political donations between the parties, according to federal election filings.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-health-politics-money-20101005,0,4869233.story

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And the Times - they are a changing ...

[Abq_Sarah]

1. So, they paid for the mandate on individuals

And now they're going to pay for a reduction in mandates on the companies.

Wow.. who couldn't see this coming?

[Iwillnevergiveup]

2. There's got to be an uprising

EVERYONE has health - good and bad. Medicare for all.

K&R

[AndyTiedye]

3. No There Won't. There Will be a Billion Dollars Worth of Advertising

…to convince us all that what is good for the insurance companies is good for us.

[Scuba]

4. If there were a public option...

...no one would stay on for-profit health insurance.

[harun]

6. The for-profit health insurance industry in America is the naughtiest demon baby capitalism

has birthed and there's serious competition!

[onehandle]

5. Money well spent I'll bet. The health insurance industry is now the new tobacco or guns.

A Republican represented product.