Let us not forget the lobbying power of the health insurance industry and the drug manufacturing lobby. Health insurance gets mandatory new customers and the drug manufacturers got a promise to not pursue drug re-importation from Canada and other lower cost countries. And the bulk of the new rules got postponed til 2014, giving concerned lobbying groups multiple Congresses in which to further tweak things in their favor.
We started out with an idea of healthcare reform and ended up with rather corporate sponsored health insurance reform. Still, could have been worse. Honestly though, the real changes that are taking place on the ground right now are more a result of the HITECH act which was part of ARRA, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed in 2009. I'm sure as we get closer to 2014 and the states start to really grapple with health insurance exchanges and whatnot that we'll see some interesting developments but at this point, in the actual health care field, I've seen a lot more change because of HITECH than I have from health insurance reform. Cheers, Judah On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > with the help of 2 independents and two republican senators. And > despite the majority of republicans. > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Sam <sammyc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Yet Obamacare passed. >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:345097 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
