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[–] LoftyGoat ago (edited ago)
He's one of the ones who are to blame. By the time the lobbyists and their hand-puppets in the senate were finished with that bill, it was exactly what the insurance companies wanted. It costs them on the order of ten figures every year, but the senate and house give them what they want.
I recall once on C-SPAN the watching president of the National Association Of Insurance Underwriters (I think it was called) address a meeting of his peers. He stated, in resonant and inspiring tones, "The business of the insurance business is not paying claims, the business of the insurance business is collecting premiums!" They fired him, of course. Not wise to tell the truth in front of a camera and an open microphone.