Comments on: In Washington, Revolving Doors are Bad for Your Health (Guest Voice http://themoderatevoice.com/49199/in-washington-revolving-doors-are-bad-for-your-health-guest-voice/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:18:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/49199/in-washington-revolving-doors-are-bad-for-your-health-guest-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-221869 DLS Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:44:00 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=49199#comment-221869 Moyers misses things, as usual. Of course the established interests are going to lobby against anything that hurts them. The only reason some insurers have been participating with the Dems (as they did in the early 1990s) is that it leaves them alive and in the health care field, for at least a few years more. They're obviously on borrowed time and facing increasing regulations and worse, which normal people rightly question. (Some cannot understand the obvious, but even the many facing all kinds of problems now aren't necessarily so desperate and non-thinking that they're willing to risk the likely prospect of things becoming even worse for themselves, and accept anything and everything that politicians propose, just because some politicians call it "reform" or some other nice-sounding name.)<br><br>Where Moyers fails with the revolving door metaphor as a generality is in neglecting the irony about it, that those best qualified or fitted to regulate or otherwise legislate about a field of business are those who understand it best, which are those who are actually working in that field. Moyers misses things, as usual. Of course the established interests are going to lobby against anything that hurts them. The only reason some insurers have been participating with the Dems (as they did in the early 1990s) is that it leaves them alive and in the health care field, for at least a few years more. They're obviously on borrowed time and facing increasing regulations and worse, which normal people rightly question. (Some cannot understand the obvious, but even the many facing all kinds of problems now aren't necessarily so desperate and non-thinking that they're willing to risk the likely prospect of things becoming even worse for themselves, and accept anything and everything that politicians propose, just because some politicians call it “reform” or some other nice-sounding name.)

Where Moyers fails with the revolving door metaphor as a generality is in neglecting the irony about it, that those best qualified or fitted to regulate or otherwise legislate about a field of business are those who understand it best, which are those who are actually working in that field.

]]> By: Lisa Renae Holt http://themoderatevoice.com/49199/in-washington-revolving-doors-are-bad-for-your-health-guest-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-221848 Lisa Renae Holt Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:26:57 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=49199#comment-221848 Not like any of this is actually a "newsflash". Not for those of us watching the chips closely as they fall one-by-one. Just keep writing the legislators is all I know that makes an inkling of difference; and I have my doubts about that. Not like any of this is actually a “newsflash”. Not for those of us watching the chips closely as they fall one-by-one. Just keep writing the legislators is all I know that makes an inkling of difference; and I have my doubts about that.

]]> By: JSpencer http://themoderatevoice.com/49199/in-washington-revolving-doors-are-bad-for-your-health-guest-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-221793 JSpencer Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:32:30 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=49199#comment-221793 If people are comfortable with what they have they are willing to ignore lots of things... even their government being taken away from them. It's not alarmist and it's no joke. The democracy we lived with in this country for the first couple hundred years is no more. It's a business now. If people are comfortable with what they have they are willing to ignore lots of things… even their government being taken away from them. It's not alarmist and it's no joke. The democracy we lived with in this country for the first couple hundred years is no more. It's a business now.

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]]> By: ordinarysparrow http://themoderatevoice.com/49199/in-washington-revolving-doors-are-bad-for-your-health-guest-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-221637 ordinarysparrow Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:42:47 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=49199#comment-221637 Madness is the exception in individuals, but the rule in groups" Nietzche. . . .maybe. . .maybe not. . . Madness is the exception in individuals, but the rule in groups” Nietzche. . . .maybe. . .maybe not. . .

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