"One critical element in selling the Obamacare legislation to the Democrats, who passed it into law without a single Republican vote, was the lobbying of the health insurance industry. The insurers were made into cronies by the inclusion of the so-called “risk corridor” payments, guaranteeing them profits should premium revenue fail to cover expenses.The deal was thus presented to them as a no-lose proposition that would expand the market for their products by forcing consumers to buy them on pain of hefty fines (later redefined as “taxes” by Chief Justice Roberts). "
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