Calling out companies by Government

[cabinover]

I may be wrong and this won't be the first time but I don't recall previous administrations calling out specific market segments.

What I am referring to is all the shots being taken at health insurance companies by those that don't need their services.

Is this an old practice that I never noticed or is this new because of government wanting to take over health care?

This is not a debate on the way I worded this either, we're already doing that in other threads

[noonereal]

Do you have some examples of what you are asking about?
Off the top of my head it seems all administrations take sides.
Look how Nixon started this assault on the media. He was a media darling when he came up but expected that his actions should not change the favorable reporting.

[Twodogs]

Originally Posted by cabinover

I may be wrong and this won't be the first time but I don't recall previous administrations calling out specific market segments.

What I am referring to is all the shots being taken at health insurance companies by those that don't need their services.

Is this an old practice that I never noticed or is this new because of government wanting to take over health care?

This is not a debate on the way I worded this either, we're already doing that in other threads

I know what you mean. I think it may end up biting them though.

[cabinover]

Originally Posted by noonereal

Do you have some examples of what you are asking about?
Off the top of my head it seems all administrations take sides.
Look how Nixon started this assault on the media. He was a media darling when he came up but expected that his actions should not change the favorable reporting.

I am referring to the administration, from the top down, saying just how terrible health insurers are.

I don't see them saying how bad car insurers are, or tile makers, or mechanics are for instance. Only something they want to take over, for the time being.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by cabinover

I am referring to the administration, from the top down, saying just how terrible health insurers are.

I don't see them saying how bad car insurers are, or tile makers, or mechanics are for instance. Only something they want to take over, for the time being.

Seems pretty standard political "sales."

I think you'd be hard pressed to attribute this to just the new president.

[cabinover]

Originally Posted by noonereal

Seems pretty standard political "sales."

I think you'd be hard pressed to attribute this to just the new president.

Any examples off the top of your head?

[noonereal]

Auto companies, Banks media......

[cabinover]

Let me rephrase the criteria then. Can you give me examples of slander by another administration?

The ones you listed all have one thing in common, this administration. And, I don't recall them talking crap about the auto companies or banks. The auto folks got sympathy, the banks that were liked got prop up money, the ones that weren't were let to wither on the vine.

[noonereal]

Ok,

Obama is the Devil

Palin is swell (you betcha)

We need a revolution so the wing nuts can shove this country back to the stone age.



Better?


I believe you are trying to make a distinction between this administrations sale of health care to all other administrations sales of everything. It's just what you want to see, IMHO.

[cabinover]

So tell me something, why skirt my question? I've seen this tactic before. Hmmm....something about a playbook

If you cannot answer it that's fine, just say so. As I mentioned in the OP I ask this as a legit question, not to infer anything beyond.