Comments on: Tantalus Redux http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/06/03/tantalus-redux/ Steve Piontek Editor-in-Chief Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:23:23 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michael Dutton http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/06/03/tantalus-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Michael Dutton Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:26:00 +0000 http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/?p=48#comment-50 The banks wanted TARP, Chrysler and GM wanted federal bailouts. Now look at them. Why do inusrers think they would fare any differently? The banks wanted TARP, Chrysler and GM wanted federal bailouts. Now look at them. Why do inusrers think they would fare any differently?

]]> By: Rick Bryan http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/06/03/tantalus-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Rick Bryan Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:30:59 +0000 http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/?p=48#comment-38 The industry needs to be careful about what it wishes for. Federal preemption of 150 years of state regulation isn't going to be automatic and overnight. How does that saying go?: Better the devil you know . . .. The lack of federal involvement in the industry has, for the most part, kept insurers under the radar of most Representatives and ignorant of the holy grail of the industry, IRC 101(a)(1). Let's keep it that way, I say. Rick Bryan New York, NY The industry needs to be careful about what it wishes for. Federal preemption of 150 years of state regulation isn’t going to be automatic and overnight. How does that saying go?: Better the devil you know . . .. The lack of federal involvement in the industry has, for the most part, kept insurers under the radar of most Representatives and ignorant of the holy grail of the industry, IRC 101(a)(1). Let’s keep it that way, I say.

Rick Bryan
New York, NY

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