ericmortensen:

BlueCross BlueShield Anti-Reform Mailer (10/25/09) | TPM Document Collection
The mailer doesn’t even pretend that BCBS is interested in helping people.  They just don’t want to have any competition.

From the second page, carefully crafted to appeal to any anti-government sentiment: ”No matter what you call it, if the federal government intervenes in the private health insurance market, it’s a slippery slope to a single-payer system.”
The slippery slope argument, really? REALLY?

ericmortensen:

BlueCross BlueShield Anti-Reform Mailer (10/25/09) | TPM Document Collection

The mailer doesn’t even pretend that BCBS is interested in helping people.  They just don’t want to have any competition.

From the second page, carefully crafted to appeal to any anti-government sentiment: ”No matter what you call it, if the federal government intervenes in the private health insurance market, it’s a slippery slope to a single-payer system.”

The slippery slope argument, really? REALLY?

26 October 2009 ·

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