And it's a total dream that the private insurance companies who have made a killing (literally!) on selling shit plans and refusing claims now have a completely captive audience - all the people who were denied or couldn't afford plans before are now being FORCED to buy private shit plans, and if they don't, they face a fine.
You have yet to answer the fundamental question: how could Obama's plan be a huge gift horse for the insurance industry, and they were fighting the plan tooth and nail? Like I said already:'
And here are the big reasons why the insurers saw this as violently oppossed to their interests Michelle.
The government is ending a lot of the practices that allow the insurers to cherry pick who and what they cover. That is how they make their money. Very simple.
In return they are being handed new business they must take that they don't want- where there is no profit.
I suppose in Alice in Wonderland that could be called 'corporate welfare'.
It would be corporate welfare if people were being forced to buy their shitty plans. But the new law means they can't do anymore what makes those plans shitty for consumers and profitable for them.
They will not be able to cherry pick who they cover and deny care.
Like Tommy said, they'll fight a rear guard action against the new law. But they are doing it because it is the opposite of the 'corporate welfare' you wave it off as... simply because you are sure it must be true.