[quote=pri_dk]Aecetia, your explanations are pretty weak: some vague quotes from partisan sources and a few statistics that show insurance companies have raised rates – just like they’ve been doing for years.
Most of the HCRA hasn’t even gone into effect yet. There is nothing required by law right now that would cause these rate hikes.
Did it ever occur to you that insurance companies are raising rates now, before they are constrained by the legislation, so that they can alter public perception?
Here’s an example of how things work in real-life:
– Insurance company spokesperson: “We have to raise rates, Obama is making us do it!”
– The “objective” WSJ reports these “facts” – blaming Obamacare for the rate hikes.
– People who read these “newspapers” (read:industry propaganda) believe it and start repeating it around the office on the internet (it never even occurs to them that the billion-dollar insurance industry is playing them…)
Know any of these people?[/quote]
This kind of shit happens all the time by people bound by political ideologies. When the first version of the bill was passed by the house (and still being debated by the house), someone posted, on this board, a list of 50 claims about the law, purported to have been written by a constitutional lawyer. With citations of page and line number for every one. So I read the bill. Beginning to end. As i did with the final bill. 49 out of the 50 were outright falsities (including “death panels”). I documented exactly why each was false. The one true statement was that minority medical school students would get grants.
But people who are ideologically opposed to either the sponsor of the bill, the party proposing the bill, or for any of dozens of other reasons, ignore facts, and stick with beliefs, latch on to those falsities to support their religious like beliefs despite all evidence to the contrary. It has dumbed us down as a country. It is, and will continue to be an impediment to progress.
