Quote from retaildaytrader:
This weekend full of legislation is going to CRUSH health insures like Welpoint. WLP isnt a well managed company anyway owning 3 company jets. Why does WLP need these jets? To sell health insurance policies?
I see many of the insurers falling down big and getting CRUSHED.
I see them getting rich beyond your wildest dreams. 30+ million new captive customers and virtually no curbs on premiums. It will be an insurance man's nirvana unless the public option passes the Senate with real teeth in it. Lieberman will not let that happen, though his official position is "for it, but against it"!
I am applying for a speech writer position in his office and have drafted a little speech for him:
"Ladies and Gentlemen, you have asked me how I feel about the public option. Very well then, I will tell you straight out how I feel about it. If by the public option you mean that part of the health bill that will offer the opportunity for our poor, our disadvantaged, and the mommies and daddies of our little children to obtain coverage at low cost and thus be saved from the ravages of hurt and disease and suffering, then I am unalterably for it.
However, if you mean by the public option that which threatens the very foundations of our glorious democracy, that which brings intolerable socialism and government tampering; yea, that which tramples upon the sacred utterings of our founding fathers, while making it impossible for our generous and caring health insurers to serve the public interest and forces them out of business, one by one, as the liberal, socialist, jew haters in Washington evermore increase their stranglehold over the best medical care in the world, slowly, oh so slowly and agonizingly, wringing the very life from it; then, ladies and gentlemen, I am unalterably against it.
This is my stand, and I shall not waver from it." ***
***With apologies to former Representative N.S. "Soggy" Sweat, Jr.