re: #12 Buck

Giving Unions a $60 billion tax break on the Cadillac insurance plans is nothing short of the biggest display of pure corruption so far by the Obama administration.

While I might have had some sympathy for your argument, you blew it here. Reality is, it is the Congress, especially those members who come from districts where union vote turn out is still significant, for whom catering to this particular special interest group has led them to adding this to the health care bill negotiations.

Furthermore, all special interest groups try to get Congress to do their will. The HCR act is a big bill and has attracted particular attention, but pretty much anything Congress does has fine detail (often overlooked by the populace as a whole, and the news media) where certain groups have succeeded in getting some special attention.