Virginia once again leads the nation on a downward spiral!
This time it’s a bill in the Virginia Senate exempting Virginians from being required to buy health insurance should the current version of health care reform ever pass.
And of course, this bill really should be called “The Insurance Company Cherry Picking Subsidy Act”.
Without a mandate, insurance companies will either offload the sick to government or charge vastly higher premiums to the healthy. It’s a surefire formula for keeping health care costs rising forever.
What’s even more ridiculous is that Democrats made this possible: 5 Democratic senators joined with all the Know Nothings to pass the bill.
Of course, the bill’s an exercise in political pandering and has no chance of being made law.
But the message is clear: Democrats are not willing to lead on health care reform and they will be punished for it in November.
Gorilla says: “Insurance companies get the cherry, the rest of us get the pits!”
Tags: health care reform, Virginia
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