While the media is trumpeting Sarah Palin's book, which sounds like a very bad soap opera, they are ignoring a report by Goldman-Sachs about health insurance stock. According to the Goldman-Sachs report, if the proposed health care reform contains no public options, stock earnings would grow 5% a year from 2010 to 2019. If health insurance companies kill health care reform, the stock earnings would grow 10% a year and by 2019, the value of stock in health insurance companies would rise 59%.*
The folks who will pay for this financial bonanza are the tea-baggers who make up Sarah Palin's fan club. In addition to paying stock dividends, Sarah Palin's fans will also pay the salaries for CEO's, lobbyists, advertising campaigns, and right-wing organizers. They'll make generous campaign contributions to politicians because 2010 is an election year. They can expect their health insurance rates to skyrocket. Many companies will off-shore to avoid insurance costs, precipitating an exodus of American jobs - or they will offer crummy insurance policies that really do not cover anything, so that when a tea-bagger gets sick, he or she also has to file for bankruptcy.
Needless to say, if tea baggers gain too much weight, get diagnosed with breast-cancer, or if one of their children gets asthma, they will get dropped by their insurance companies and left to die. After call insurance companies really invented the death panels, except it's called "controlled utilization." (Term courtesy of Humana, and I got the info from David Sirota.)
Why doesn't any one in the media ask Sarah Palin these questions? The answer is simple. As a rogue, which by definition means a crook, a charlatan or an con-artist, The Queen of the Rogues, Sarah Palin gets to pick and choose the questions she wants to answer, and as rogue, she also gets to pick and choose when she's going to tell the truth.
* Source, The Progress Report, November 13 by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Colrey, Benjamin Armruster, pat Garafolo Zaid Jilani.
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Update, Sept. 9: We have revised this section dealing with accusations
that Palin wanted to ban books from Wasilla's library to include more
detail about what transpired at the time.
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Stuart, Paul. "FROM THE ARCHIVE: Palin: Library Censorship Inquiries 'Rhetorical'." 18 December 1996. Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, 8 Sept. 2008.
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