Sen Ron Johnson, (R-WI), speaking on Meet the Press this morning stated that insurance companies are justified in treating people who have pre-existing conditions differently than who don’t. The former should pay more. He drew an analogy with car insurance. People with bad driving records pay more. They go into special pools with often astronomic rates. People with such things as heart issues, cancer, disabilities tied to accident or disease, his argument goes, should be handled similarly. We should allow insurance companies to cover a human life in pretty much the same way that they would cover a Buick or a Nissan owned by a bad driver. Don’t you just love these people?
He's just doing his job, like the loathsome shit that he is. "Multimillionaire Republican candidate Ron Johnson’s campaign is fueled by his investments in companies like BP, health insurance companies, shadowy out-of-state special interest groups, and Washington lobbyists, according to FEC reports." . . . "Among the corporate special interest money that has fueled Johnson’s campaign, is $10,000 from Koch Industries, the mammoth oil company and one of the nation’s top polluters. Koch Industries, run by the Koch brothers, also bankrolls Americans For Prosperity and other shadowy interest groups. Johnson also received a $10,000 PAC contribution from Wellpoint, Inc., the parent company of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Wisconsin, which earlier this year announced plans to raise health insurance premiums by more than 17 percent in Wisconsin. Citizens United, the conservative group whose case overturned decades of campaign laws leading to secret money flowing into elections around the country, made a $5,000 PAC contribution to Johnson." (Emphasis mine.)
