it looks like another massive corporate bailout

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/story_print.html?id=1926021&sponsor=

A bailout for the U.S. health-care industry
By Rose Ann DeMoro, Citizen Special August 25, 2009

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What's left is a proposal that will force the uninsured to buy private insurance with subsidies for low-income earners and only limited constraints on industry price gouging and care denials that characterize the collapsing insurance-based system.

In sum, it looks like another massive corporate bailout, following the earlier version for the banks, this time for an equally unpopular insurance industry, which will fuel even more public cynicism of the reform process and political system.
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