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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Fri Jun 25, 2010 at 13:40:58 PM MST
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| Our Congressman's use of his office's resources continues to amaze. In addition to using his taxpayer-funded office to encourage people to vote in an election where he faced two primary opponents, Congressman Rehberg is now using tax dollars to lie to Montanans about the health care bill he opposed.
From his latest email, a survey on how to deal with healthcare costs: If they had been included in the new law, which provision(s) do you think would have helped reduce health care costs? (Choose as many as you want)
- Lawsuit Reform
- Allowing insurance companies to compete across state lines
- Letting small businesses pool their resources like larger corporations and government
Here's the problem. Under reform, insurance companies can compete across state lines and small businesses (and individuals) will pool their purchasing power.
Under the federal bill, states can sign off on eachothers' regulations and allow policies licensed for sale in, say, Montana to be sold in California, provided California's state government thinks that is kosher. In other words, it allows for increased competition while maintaining states' rights. What Rehberg is really calling for here is for the federal government to gut Montana's ability (and every other state's ability) to regulate insurance at all. The federalists in the tea party should be rightfully outraged at this proposal.
As for pooling purchasing power, small employers will soon purchase through the exchanges, which are basically places for employers and individuals to buy in a competitive marketplace and leverage their collective purchasing power. I'm not really sure what other model the Congressman would support. A number of us already "pool" our policies through programs like Chamber Choices. The exchanges do this on a much larger scale and with far more competition.
So there's reality. It's a far cry from what our Congressman is proposing.
I'd also love for him to be upfront about the fact that he wants to undermine Montana's ability to regulate insurance and to move that authority to the federal level alone. I'm sure that would be popular with his base. |
| Matt Singer :: Rehberg's Taxpayer-Funded Dishonesty |
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