Some blue dog House Democrats led by Stephanie Herseth Sandlin also oppose a public option. And when the Senate Finance Committee voted against including the option in its version of health care reform, Republicans were joined by a handful of Democrats including the committee chair, Max Baucus, who crafted the bill after conferring for weeks with the so-called “gang of six”: fellow Democrats Jeff Bingaman and Kent Conrad, Republicans Chuck Grassley, Mike Enzi and Olympia Snowe. The entire gang of six votes—casts their votes against the public option on Tuesday.
But each of them voted just last year in support of government-run insurance, that insurance however protects property. It is the National Flood Insurance Program created in 1968, because the free market decided it could not make money on that unpredictable risk called flooding. Government-run flood insurance is sold through private insurance companies but it is backed by the government and the government assumes all risk. Unlike the public option which relies on customer premiums, government flood insurance gets a subsidy—also known as a handout—from the government and it is mandatory for some people.
So given all the shouting over a public option, who could vote for mandatory taxpayer subsidized, anti- free market socialized flood insurance run by government bureaucrats? Every single politician I just named and most of Congress. Charles Boustany of Louisiana, along with 44 other Republicans, including going bipartisan on September 27th, 2007 to vote yea on the Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act. Karl Max applauded.
The entire “gang of six” on May 13th last year voting yea on the same act, quote, “to restore the solvency of the National Flood Insurance Program,” but also to expand socialized insurance to other property damage, quote, “to make available multi-peril coverage for damage resulting from windstorms and floods, and for other purposes.”
In the Senate where the public option is less popular than in the House, 92 senators voted to expand socialized property insurance. Consider the communist states that get the biggest handouts from socialized property insurance. North Carolina, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, and the top socialized property insurance welfare state in the nation, “The People‘s Republic of Texas.” People‘s republic? Where 682,000 property owners have their handout for socialized property insurance, more than 36,000, scooping up $1.5 billion in claims last year alone.
Of course, it‘s not that some politicians don‘t care about the health of all Americans as much as they care about the wealth of those Americans who can‘t afford waterfront property. There is perhaps a less callous explanation: greed. It can‘t be principled because mandatory subsidized socialized property insurance is even more socialist than is the public option.
Preexisting conditions? No problem. You can get flood insurance even if you‘ve already been flooded, even if you‘ve chosen to live in a high-risk area, you can even get flood insurance after the diagnosis is in, even if you know there‘s a big rainfall or hurricane coming.
But what really matters to Congress is that insurance companies oppose the public option but they love mandatory socialized government-run property insurance.
According to the “New York Times,” Americas pay about $2.3 billion in flood premiums every year. Insurance companies get almost $1 billion out of that, almost half of it just for selling the policies, without a single dollar of their own at risk.
Congressional auditors found that private insurance companies make $327 million a year above their expenses.
So, thanks to the politicians who oppose the public option for people, we already have socialized government health care plans for the health of the insurance companies

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ARE YOU SURE THIS ISN’t FUNDED WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS?
that is against the law. Will be FOI to check this out!

These Vote Trackers are filling out individual one-page charts for their state showing how their federal politicians have voted on major bills.

A few months before election time, people from every state will download the chart for their state and pass them around. The chart can be taken into the voting booth so people can see at a glance exactly who voted for what.

We currently do not have anyone from Arkansas creating a chart for this great state.
It’s very easy to do and everything you need is right on this website.

Check it out:
http://www.votetrackers.com
-Dusty

The picture is very appropriate.

How do I know? I was healthy and got sick. Now I have no insurance. Now I’m really sick.

When the insurance company says no to a person, that person very often ends up dead. And they said Democrats wanted death panels??? INSURANCE COMPANIES ARE DEATH PANELS. And every single American is one illness or car accident or an unemployment line away from being uninsured. No one’s healthcare is safe. Fabulous ad!!!

It was actually at Iron Forge. Alliance of course. I take offense at your comments toward World of Warcraft. I figured you for a Horde.

Hanging out on World of Warcraft doesn’t count.

You also failed to factor in the effect the Green Party candidate will have. But that fine, keep ignoring the obvious and stay with the two party mindset. It is fun to see the state GOP consume themselves and battle it out. In the meantime, Trevor Drown will continue along gathering supporters listening to all the Arkies and presenting the message of a Common man working with and the common people.
One day, you will wake up and notice and then it will be too late.