Originally Posted by kane

While I have no idea what effect the republicans had on the current bill, I fully agree that lobbyist got their fingers deep into the bill. If you remember when they first started talking about the bill the insurance companies were panicked. They were against it and even saw a slight drop in stock prices. As the bill got written, an rewritten they actually started endorsing it and saw their stock prices go up. The bill will force them to take on some patients who will lose them money, but it is also going to hand about 30-45 million new paying customers to them and they love that.