“I’m surprised to find that, if anything, I under-estimated just how aggressive the insurance lobby would be in turning a really bad idea (’socialized’ health care) into an even worse one (an ongoing transfer of wealth from the taxpayer to the insurance companies a la the military-industrial complex’s long-time gaming of ‘defense’). I expected the lobby to chip away at Obamacare little by little during and after its passage — a little tweak here, a major amendment there — and make it more and more their creature over time. Instead of moving the ball down the field three downs and one conversion at a time, however, they’re apparently running a Hail Mary with Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) as quarterback.” (09/28/09)