UPDATE: Senator Perry defends corrupt special interest insurance bill

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UPDATE: Senator Perry defends corrupt special interest insurance bill

Published: Thursday, April 27th, 2023 @ 9:13 pm
By: John Steed ( More Entries )

UPDATE: Senator Jim Perry (RINO-Kinston) who represents Beaufort County was on WTIB's NCN News today supporting and defending this corrupt special interest bill for Blue Cross, which will make them a lot of money but raise the medical insurance rates of North Carolinians. Conservative Republican Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey was on the same program describing the adverse impact of this legislation on North Carolina citizens and urging its defeat..

The bill rolled through the NC House, with most of the opposition coming from the conservative Freedom Caucus lchaired by Rep. Keith Kidwell.

https://dailyhaymaker.com/causey-the-gloves-are-off/

ORIGINAL POST: The RINO leadership of the General Assembly, House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, are at it again selling out the people of North Carolina to the special interests. This time it is a sweetheart deal for insurance giant Blue Cross that the conservative Commissioner of Insurance Mike Causey says is an awful deal for the people of North Carolina.

Blue Cross has accumulated $4.6 Billioin in excess reserves from premiums paid in by policyholders. Blue Cross is supposed to be a non-profit organization, so Causey has long advocated that part of this money be returned to policy holders, perhaps by lowered premiums.

Legislation has been introduced in both houses to allow Blue Cross to put these reserves in a for-profit shall company that would be exempt from regulation by the Commissioner of Insurance and there would be no restrictions on what Blue Cross could do with it. Berger and Moore are twisting arms of GOP legislators to vote for this rotten sweetheart deal.

https://dailyhaymaker.com/blue-cross-nc-calling-in-its-chits-on-jones-street/

https://dailyhaymaker.com/mike-causeys-grande-cojones/

This comes hard on the heels of Berger and Moore selling out North Carolina Republicans to the Big Medicine special interests on the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, something that will force hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians who now have employer paid health insurance onto the welfare program Medicaid, where many will lose their current doctors. It will also drive up health insurance premiums for small business.

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Browny Douglas said:

( April 28th, 2023 @ 12:12 pm )

Amen, Conservative Voter and Rino Hunter.

A remnant son.

Rino Hunter said:

( April 28th, 2023 @ 8:44 am )

Some of those comments on the Daily Haymaker point to the real problem here. We have certain Republican legislators, including those in the leadership, who ought to mount red lights above their office doors because they are such prostitutes for the special interests. The state senator who (mis)represents Beaufort County is one of those, Jim Perry of Kinston.

Like the NC Green New Deal and the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, NC consumers are being screwed to the wall to pander to the crooked special interests. Big companies like Duke Energy, which has an electric monopoly in most of North Carolina, and Blue Cross, an oligopoly with 83% of the medicial insurance business in North Carolina are being heavily favotred over John Q. Citizen. Jim Perry is trying to be the best politician that special interest money can buy.

We should not forget the chief sponsor of this corrupt special interest bill, Rep. John Bradnford (RINO-Mecklenburg, who was liberal Thom Tillis' handpicked replacement in his old NC House seat when Tillis went to Washington. Now Bradford is trying to run for Dale Folwell's job as State Treasurer. Electing Bradford would be an unmitigated disaster and we need to stop him in the primary. If not, then conservatives should just sit out the general election for State Treasurer or if available vote for a protest candidate such as a Libertarian. The Democrat is certain to be as bad as Bradford.

Conservative Voter said:

( April 26th, 2023 @ 11:23 am )

We need to separate the wheat from the chaff in the next set of legislative primaries. The special interest hacks like Sen. Jim Perry and Rep. Tim Reeder need to go, and we need more conservatives like Rep. Keith Kidwell and Sens. Bobby Hannig and Norm Sanderson. We need enough conservatives to change out the rotten, corrupt leadership in both House and Senate.

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