Frustrated with supposed 'lefts' health care arguments

Twice in one day, I have heard the 'right' hammer the representatives of the 'left' with the same old, sorry argument against health care .... 'do you want some bureaucrat deciding who you can see or if you can have a procedure', yadda, yadda, yadda

And, both times (Fox Sunday Morning and Geo. Steph) the left rep failed to point out that this happens repeatedly to hundreds of thousands of people in the US when private health IN$$$URANCE companies dictate which providers they will pay for and which procedures they will cover.

Additionally, this whole idea of government inefficiency is bogus. All one need do is research the cost overruns, fraud, and shoddy work done by they private consultants across the board ... from Iraq War rebuilding and security to our state's hiring of IT CONsultants who massively ripped off the state and left them with an unusable product to our city's hiring of an education auditor who has been indicted on multiple charges of overcharging and fraud.

I am sick and tired of the automatic dissing of government employees and assumption that private contractors are better/more efficient. It just ain't so.

We are fortunate to have top of the line private insurance. My husband is a VP at his company - not bragging, just for background.

But, when he was injured, we have to jump through hoops to see the doctor recommended to us by his primary care physician and paid exorbitant co-pays on procedures recommended by the specialist. Further, the rates HC providers are charging for some of these procedures and auxiliary services/supplies is obscene. And, the layers of IN$ and Administrative bureaucracy in the private sector, not only make it worse, they make any supposed government bureaucracy pale in comparison.

BTW - his injury rendered him immobile for three months and semi-mobile for five months. I haven't seen a doc in ten years (hoping to offset the kids and hubby - after a breast cancer scare) and only take our three kids for annual check ups/immunizations and serious injuries/illnesses.

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I have RA, and my primary and my rheumy both agree I need to take an expensive injectable med - embrel.
I rat worm insurance company is fighting me tooth and nail.
They love me and my co-pays while I am healthy.
Then fight me when I need them to help me regain my health.

Democratic lawmakers are too busy screaming about saving the for-profit health insurance business to argue any "left" position.

as it may be. The insurance/health care lobbyists are only second to the defense/security lobbyists, in sliminess.