Legal Commentary

Blanche Lincoln: The Bizarro Robin Hood

By Big Tent Democrat

Via TPM, Blanche Lincoln says:

We can [. . .] expand coverage to the uninsured and underinsured without creating a purely public, new government program.

Of course we can. We can also eliminate Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare and get rid of all government run health insurance. Does Lincoln support that? After all, we can take from the American People and give not hundreds of billions of dollars to the insurance companies, but trillions of dollars instead and get rid of these horrible government run insurance entities. The Max Tax that Lincoln supports chooses to tax the less well off and let the rich insurance companies, corporations and the wealthy off scot free. It is a terrible policy. Moreover Lincoln is wrong when she says "We can [. . .] stabilize the cost of coverage [. . .] without creating a purely public, new government program." That is a lie. Blanche Lincoln, a Bizarro Robin Hood, wants to take from the less well off and give to the insurance companies. It is as simple as that. I doubt that is a winning political formula. But I am no interloper. Blanche Lincoln will find out if the formula works for her next year.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 30, 2009 (boomark / email).