Daily dose of the detestable

Mis-Rep. Lloyd Doggett, Democrat TX-25 has an entire angry mob of detractors. One of them recently wrote:

I was always puzzled at why Doggett’s major campaign contributors were health insurance companies…   allowing his net worth to exceed 21 million dollars since his 2005 election to Congress.

Doggett’s vote for Obamacare is his vote for self-enrichment.  Sleazy b@stard.

Another wrote back:

And you’re surprised by this…why?  We need to do everything possible to help Dr. Donna Campbell retire that elitist, self-serving snollygoster in November.

Now we find that Doggett voted yes in favor of using the Slaughter Solution, so he’s on record as being for the Constitution-killing Demon Pass (deem and pass).

A ‘yes’ vote on the previous question is a vote to authorize Speaker Pelosi to use the Slaughter Solution to ram ObamaCare through the House without an up-or-down vote. A ‘no’ vote on the PQ [previous question] is a vote against the Slaughter Solution. ”

For the Record

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“‘We allow the insurance industry to run wild in this country,’ President Obama declared [last] Monday. ‘We can’t have a system that works better for the insurance companies than it does for the American people.’ Yet Obama’s plan to “tame ” health insurers would boost their business, protect them from competition and guarantee their profits, all at the expense of consumers and taxpayers.

It is therefore not surprising that the insurance companies, while they object to the president’s rhetoric and quibble over some of the details, are happy to be domesticated. … As he himself notes, ‘They’re going to have 30 million new customers,’ thanks to the government’s mandates and subsidies.

To distract us from the favor he is doing for insurers, Obama claims to be getting tough with them by demanding that they take all comers and charge them all the same rates, without regard to health. While abolishing risk-based pricing contradicts a basic principle of the insurance business, the industry has to weigh the loss of that freedom against the gain of government-guaranteed revenue. Despite his talk about reining in ‘excessive’ premium hikes, Obama’s plan commits him to keeping insurers financially sound so they can provide the coverage he is promising. …

In essence, then, Obama’s plan would use money forcibly extracted from taxpayers and policyholders to keep insurers healthy.”

–columnist Jacob Sullum