As the Senate Finance Committee passed a $829 Billion bill that reshapes the health care system today, sides squared off for the mother-lode of battles: The White House vs The Health Care Insurance Lobby.
Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) was the lone Republican to cast her vote in favor of this reform.
According to the Washington Post:
…[A]ttacks 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 the nation’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.
As the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday approved a 10-year, $829 billion bill to remake the health-care system, Obama’s top advisers and the insurers moved into a more intense stage of conflict.
“The insurance industry has decided to lead the charge against health reform, and everyone recognizes their motives: profits,” said White House deputy communications director Dan Pfeiffer. “We are going to make sure they can’t sink this effort at the last minute.”
After watching all those commercials intended to scare the crap out of people, after listening to all those tea party people, after listening so many say that we have the best health system in the world, one has ask themself: Why are we letting the people who have been cheating us and robbing us blind all these years dictate national policy?
