Health care sham
By Brian Kirwin | Saturday, December 26th, 2009 | PolicyHey, idiot liberals! Yeah, you!
Patting yourselves on the back for your “health care reform” that passed the House and Senate? Think you’re finally cracking down on the evil insurance companies?
Think again.
Health insurance company stock is going through the roof since the cloture vote passed.
Cigna (CI) is one of the sector’s leading performers, rising by 6.2 %. The gain has lifted the stock to its best intraday price in fifteen months.
Aetna (AET) is also moving notably higher, posting gain of 5.8 % . With the upward move, shares have risen to a fourteen-month intraday high.
Unitedhealth Group (UNH), WellCare Health Plans (WCG) and Humana (HUM) are also up by substantial margins, reaching fresh multi-month highs. (RTT)
What do you think you’re reforming?
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The right wants to jeer him. The left wants to censor him. Moderates usually want both. Brian Kirwin is a political consultant and public relations strategist in Virginia Beach with a lightning-rod flair. Brian also serves on the VB Arts & Humanities Commission and frequently appears on Hampton Roads theatrical stages, if only to prove that all actors aren’t liberals. Kirwin’s columns stir up debate and hit the political scene with no punches pulled.
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22 Responses to "Health care sham"
Sorry you don’t like the legislation that passed; as an “idiot liberal”, I am not too fond of it, either, but for different reasons. All I have to say is this- You can rant, you can rave, you can enjoy your narrow margin of power here in the Commonwealth- but you, my Republican friend, are going down. The writing is on the wall, its alive in the shifting demographics, the lack of direction within your party (yeah, go right, go right!). The question is this- Are you the Federalists? The Whigs? Why exactly have the Dems survived so long? They are the real Party of the People and ALL the People. Bye-bye……….
Democrats are fooling you, too. Insurance companies are LOVING this bill as it stands now.
Democrats as they began no longer exist. Read your history, Thomas Jefferson rolls over in his grave every time a Democrat traces their “lineage” back to him
Well. I suggest you go long on Hartford, or sell puts
S Bollinger…how do you interpret freedom? What of your life would you willingly cede to someone else to decide for you? How much of what you earn should rightfully belong to the government and not to you? For what you give to the government, what level of service should they provide in return? Do you prefer services to be provided to you by the government or by someone independent of the government?
I could go on…and intelligent people will answer these questions differently – but they will be answered differently. Therefore, there will always be some form of “conservative” and “liberal”. Maybe the “Party” label might change, but the philosophy will remain.
Your comment really is “ignorant” of millenniums of political philosophy.
Thank you, Conservos for giving me a history lesson and telling me how ignorant I am. I am not surprised; pompous, self-rightousness tends to be your M.O. Hey, guess what? I am a history major and I teach government/politics for a living! Scary, huh? I figured I would save you the “snappy rebuttal”.
This country was founded on freedom of opinion, but you guys on the right are always so RIGHT! BUT truthfully, history, at this juncture, has not proven to be on your side.
Bollinger, I’ve had some pretty bad teachers in my life… I want to know how we “can be going down” when the commonwealth elected a very conservative man governor by nearly 20 percentage points. Is that your indicator of which direction we are heading?
And yes, we tend to be right more often than not. Thanks for noticing.
S Bollinger, please let us know where you teach as I want my kids out of your collectivist bubble of influence as soon as possible. You have a vapid argument and are like the rest of the liberal lemmings who have thrown themselves off the cliff and are now looking at each other and taking comfort in your mass suicide. At the end, you can all grasp your collectivist hands together and say that you are doing it together and everyone is equal because you will all die at the same time.
So, Prof. Bollinger. I did a search for your work. Are you published? I’d like to read your work so that I can see the error of my ways, but I didn’t find anything by an “S Bollinger+political science”.
I’d like to know, exactly, what you found inaccurate or “pompous” about my previous comment. Do you honestly feel that human beings are one day going to agree completely on the role of government?
Also, I really am interested in your thoughts on why the Republican Party won statewide by double digits in VA. What will turn this tide to be the death of the GOP?
Thanks for reading and commenting on Bearing Drift.
The idea that you teach history is terrifying since you obviously know so little about it. I would however completely understand if you said you teach revisionistory, which leds itself nicely to making history whatever you want and the fact irrelevant.
Awesome, absolutely awesome. Exactly what I expected (and maybe even provoked) and you all followed through, marvelously predictable. All the talking points, idealogue terminology and vitriol.
Smiling in my (as you would call it) collectivist ivory tower,
SB
SB-
You’re acting as though you’ve presented a legitimate argument concerning HCR and/or the decline of the Republican Party. In fact, what you’ve done, is thrown around big words (in order to impress others) and offer up liberal “talking points, idealogue terminology and vitriol”. I’ve read your three comments a couple times, just to make sure I wasn’t missing anything. In this discussion, you haven’t offered up a single argument in favor of HCR and/or an ounce of proof to back up your statements concerning the decline of the Republican Party.
I think I can safely speak on behalf of both JR and Brian, and say that we all would love to engage in a debate concerning HCR. However, you’ve offered nothing new, nothing substantial, and nothing of worth.
So unless you can offer up a more intelligent response to Brian’s post, take your thesaurus go bother the guys at notlarrysabato.com
-B
Freud and Dr. House put together don’t have the diagnostic power that Bollinger here does.
You still never answered either me or JR about the state of Virginia going so overwhelmingly right, or ANYTHING about the debate in question.
The fact that you use the term “ideologue terminology” to refer to conservatives in a discussion on socializing health care is the piece de resistance in your massive pile of steaming words.
Facts are still facts. The health insurance industry absolutely loves a federal requirement that everyone buy health insurance with no public option for competition. Their stocks are way up.
Idiot liberals are being fooled. Senators like Reid are hookwinking them. Senate Democrats have passed a bill that the insurance companies are applauding.
Bollinger’s opinions are fine with me. I wonder how often he’s depended on taxpayers to pay his salary. When you spend your entire career being paid by government, I don’t get surprised when you support government expansion.
But this health care bill is such a sellout to its own supporters that I’m surprised they haven’t noticed it yet.
You guys need to stop picking on S. Bollinger as if it were his fault. If he IS a teacher, that means he surrounds himself with like minded academics that today, more than ever, make the old saying “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach” ring true.
Teachers, particularly at the college level, tend to push their collective heads into the sand a little deeper than normal people.
Inside the bubble of the hallowed halls, reality takes a holiday.
People like Bollinger take their “News” from Chris Matthews and Olberman and twist these already twisted and spun views beyond sanity.
Only in this insular world of people like Bollinger is “The writing on the wall”.
Oh, there is writing on the wall, to be sure. But not the stale graffiti Bollinger sees.
But his narrow minded perspective is the same as his fellow Democrats in D.C. They are so self absorbed and sanctimonious in their own righteousness that they are now quite incapable of understanding that majority of Americans now see them as arrogant, and more importantly, wrong.
So, please stop picking on Bollinger as if it was his fault. It is his CHOICE to ignore reality.
Everytime a teacher told me “the writing is on the wall,” I grabbed an eraser.
Brian, you are such a Rebel!
SB is sitting in his ivory tower thinking he has punk’d the unwashed masses. Having self-pronounced himself as a lofty academic, which seems to be a entry qualification for standing among his peers, maybe he is auditioning for an interim position as a Czar, Caesar, or maybe proving himself worthy to join the bourgeoisie ruling class. It’s wonderful that SB is so transparent about his core values in mocking the unwashed and his agenda for dominion and manipulation of us who are weak and stupid.
Though I have been somewhat provacative in previous comments (and for this I am apologetic because I was being so to demonstrate a point to myself and to the parties involved), I solemnly stand by these words: I love this country. I count myself a patriotic American. I do not take these words lightly. Do not be personally critical of my last two sentences as I assume you harbor similar sentiment towards this republic.
As I stated before, dissention is paramount to our country’s moral, ethical and political fabric and history. But in my quest for personal equilibrium, I often (sheepishly)try to remember the following paraphrased words of Ben Franklin, “We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately”………….Good New Year to You All and to our Beloved Country
So you made those inflammatory comments all along to make sure that we all felt more American? Good thing you have proven your point, I was starting to get a little worried.
Do not hide behind lack of information on the issues at hand with contrived responses that nobody disagrees with. I love America, you love America.I also hope you have a happy holidays as well. I just like to see informed debate.
Ahhh, a “teachable moment” for all as we move into the New Year.
What can i say?…insurance asbolutely stinks, and i just cant help but get the feeling that the minute a young driver calls up for a quote, the guy on the other end of the line is rubbing his hands together in preparation for the doing-over that the innocent caller is about to recieve.
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