hmm Wendell Poter, According to Norman Goldman,

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writes in Newsweek that the INSURANCE INDUSTRY wrote major sections of the Health Bill.

So guess who is in for a major disappointment? Tea partiers...

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1. Here is the story

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/05/why-healthcare-reform-will-survive.html

Repeal and Replace?
Not so fast. An insurance-company defector explains why the most controversial provision of the health-care law will survive.

Michael Reynolds / EPA-Corbis
PHOTOS: How Obamacare Will Affect You
But What Does it Mean for Me?

Conservatives who voted for congressional candidates because they pledged to repeal and replace the health-care-reform law are in for a rude awakening. Once those newly elected members of Congress have a little talk with the insurance industry’s lobbyists and executives, they will back off from that pledge. They will go through the motions, of course. They’ll hold hearings and take to the floor of both Houses to rail against the new law, and they’ll probably even introduce a bill to repeal it with much fanfare—but it will all be for show. That’s because health insurers, one of Republican candidates’ biggest and most reliable benefactors—the industry contributed three times as much money to Republicans as to Democrats since January—can’t survive without it.

Despite all the attacks on “Obamacare,” the new law props up the employer-based system that insurers and large corporations benefit from so greatly. It also guarantees that private insurers will get billions of dollars in new revenue. And the insurers won’t have to share a penny of that windfall with a government-run public option the president once said was necessary “to keep insurers honest.”

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2. Kick

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3. Yeah. The industry is never going to let that bill be repealed. They'll work to get the regs out...

but we'll have to pry that mandate from their cold, dead hands.