Who else? Hillary's golden goose. And this is another payment to her for dropping the nomination attempt. Makes me think she's actually the acting president. And why do they want it? For the benefit of the market, of course. It's certainly not for any of ours. I suppose the Wall Street guys are drooling over this. More free government money, only this time it comes straight from us. We need to throw the money changers out of the temple. There's only one fair way of doing this, but it hardly seems likely. Without our right to health, where's our right to life? Oh, yeah that's only for those who aren't actually alive yet. Fuck the living, right?
RG, you might be right. If this goes down, it would make this the worse president AND congress EVAR. Plenty of republicans are behind this. Mo money Mo money Mo money. Of course if they were to legalize the evil weed, it would go a long way towards mitigating that. Pretty safe bet that won't happen without a hail of bullets. Prohibition is big business. And the business of America is business. And they're ready to nuke the planet to protect it.
UPDATE: Here's a beaut(Butte?)..."Insurance works because policyholders pay into their plans when healthy, and have their medical bills paid when they are sick," Oh, do tell, Senator Baucus. Hmmm, let's see...Ah yes...Very elightening, but not at all surprising.