Tero wrote:”.... without any ability to read and debate its provisions.”
But the healthcare industry had read every word of it. Yey Capitalism!
Don't confuse cronyism with capitalism. Steven Horwitz’s First Law of Political Economy: "no one hates capitalism more than capitalists."
I'm pro freedom, not pro business.
lAs Matt Ridley wrote in The Rational Optimist, "I hold no brief for large corporations, whose inefficiencies, complacencies, and anti-competitive tendencies often drive me as crazy as the next man. Like Milton Friedman, I notice that ‘business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the chief sources of danger.’ They are addicted to corporate welfare, they love regulations that erect barriers to entry to their small competitors, they yearn for monopoly and they grow flabby and inefficient with age."
Perhaps one might consider whether Obamacare was pro-capitalism, or pro-business.
What do you think?
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar