Why didn't Republicans install their ideas for health care reform when they controlled government from 02 - 07?
I learned from a bit of research that Nixon created the for-profit HMOs that created the problems in the greed-driven insurance industry that have plagued us for so many years now. These problems began during Reagan years when the HMOs invested heavily in the over-inflated real estate market (false profit figures such as was true under GW/Cheney) and, when the market collapsed, these HMOs began reneging on paying for consumers' illnesses or injuries---they began the practice of denying coverage or denying claims, and this soon spread due to the GOP penchant for deregulation (no checks and balances, no oversight). Then came the "pre-existing condition" as an excuse for denying coverage, and this too spread like a wildfire throughout the profit-driven industry.
Because our political system has come to rely on MONEY and MORE MONEY to get elected, one could reasonably assume that the corporate dollars being poured into campaigns is basically in the nature of bribes---these corporations expect reform-blocking, profit-protecting legislations, which means less and less focus on consumer protections as has been the case for the health care and insurance industries (and for pharmaceuticals, whose lobbyists reportedly outnumber our elected representatives by at least 4:1, according to Rossi/2005). Republicans have ALWAYS been PRO-CORPORATION over consumers---it's what they do. Who knows what investments some of these career politicians have in the very industries they are supposed to oversee or regulate? I have always believed that there should be a very PUBLIC posting of ALL investments for any elected representative, and that they should RECUSE themselves if legislation comes up involving those corporations they've chosen as their investments that would favorably effect stock values.
The answer then is money...Republicans never had any intention whatsoever of reform of any type on any of the deregulated fatcat spoiled-brat institutions (banking/Wall Street), markets (housing, credit, etc.), or corporations (for-profit insurers, pharmaceutical industry, HMOs, hospitals, etc.). It is just NOT in their DNA, so to speak. Democrats, although not perfect, are more consumer-protection oriented, so I'm very very proud that they found the backbone and the "bite" to "get 'er done" on these needed reforms.
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