Do you realize that the Rs think Walmart is socialist now?

[Skidmore]

Seriously, think about it. Yesterday when the President was explaining market forces to the chief NOPers, he used the Walmart marketing model as an example of how an expanded healthcare market would bring costs of insurance premiums and health care down. Even after this discussion, these people were still hammering that gubmint taking over people's health care nail. Never mind that currently health insurance has no free market but is a monopoly in many places.

I wonder how this could be turned back on the NOPers. For all their rhetoric, they are really not interested in free markets.

[liberal N proud]

1. They are that dumb

:rofl:

[mediaman007]

2. It is a monopoly if you are in a group program that doesn't fit your needs.

I think that health care premiums would drop if the insurance companies would have to sell individual policies, like homeowners and car insurance policies.

[BeyondGeography]

3. I'm still marvelling at their People Fairy stardust solution

Put the people in charge of the health care market (whatever that means) and prices will naturally come down. Talk to the invisible hand.

We've all heard it many times before, but seeing them push their hocus pocus at the summit yesterday was classic.

[Overseas]

4. They're on the Luntz Lying System now.

They figure if they all tell the same lie on any given day, or push the same catch phrases (like let's scrap the bill), it will sound like the truth to some people. "I heard it from several sources."

And with our mass media firmly consolidated into right wing hands, we'll only hear the montages of right wing echo chamber tactics on our token liberal TV and radio shows.

I didn't hear any mainstream news items on the summit saying that "after a year of compromising with Republicans and incorporating many of their ideas into the legislation that passed the Senate, Republicans were still stalling on final passage, complaining that they had not been heard, so the President invited them in for one more meeting today."

Instead I heard little clips of Republicans whining about how they had not been heard.