This is a reduction of the allowed overhead for insurance companies by 50 to 60%. Huge.

There are a number of other provisions that will strongly curtail the slice insurance companies are allowed to take. So when people say it's a boost to these companies, that they've been bought off, I wonder what math they have done.

The argument against mandates is also effectively an argument against solidarity.

So the arguments seem silly to me and to have right wing or glibertarian overtones. Somewhere along the line it seems FDL stopped pushing the overton window and started playing meme lab for the RNC.