Pro-business is correct. The law is a bald-faced boon to big insurance companies who profit from not covering people. They practically wrote the damn thing. Or at least cut in tons of loopholes from the Heritage Foundation version of it. The whole thing is the legislative equivalent of a Rube Goldberg machine -- it takes something that should be simple and overcomplicates it. Sure, we got a few token bones like removing pre-existing conditions as an excuse for denying coverage, but then we gave those same companies thousands of new customers. Meanwhile, even after some states accepted the medicare expansion, we still have a ton of people caught in the coverage gap. So much for Single Payer. And so much for negotiating drug prices, too. No matter what idiots like Michelle Bachman or John Boehner tell you, big insurance still runs the show -- no punishment or substantive scorn, just accepting the evil they commit as given.
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