It's quite clear that most politicians are quite happy with the insurance companies in our pockets

Most of them have given into the fallacy that our privately insured health care model is one worth preserving.

These are people who are resigned to the belief that a person's life should be exposed to market driven forces in this country, rather ensuring that the citizen has a right to expect that their government is looking out for their best interests, via a Social Contract.

It also goes to show the hypocrisy that exists in the debate: In that it is repeatedly said this country has the "Best Health Care in the World." However, there is a refusal to simply leave the existing system alone, but introduce a Single Payer OPTION that anyone can join to compete with the "Best Health Care in the World", and let the two duke it out in the marketplace.

The problem is that very few people will admit that a market driven health care insurance system is less about providing adequate health care than it is about making a profit for the insurance company at the expense of the people paying premiums.

By legitimizing the roles of the health insurance companies, Big Pharma, and every other entity who depend on the current system, it has allowed the strategists and lobbyists to flood the converso-phere with misinformation and lies in order to impel scared and uninformed people cause chaos in the debate.

The goal is to derail any positive change and keep the cash rolling in for the industry and hangers on... and it's working.

It's going to get a lot worse, for sure, before it gets any better in this country.

That's how Washington "works".

...and it's also frightening. The system is at the breaking point, and if nothing is done, well...

at the unfair practices of the medical insurance industry when you can't even talk about perverse corporate profits and compensation. I don't hear any of our good democrats expressing outrage at the profits or compensation. If they would name names and give examples of the terrible ripoff that private insurance is, they would probably be heard and understood. Dana ; )

on some level, paying our "taxes" directly to the corporations makes sense; it eliminates the government middleman, who takes like what... 3%?

Times are tough, and corporations need every dollar they can get. And just imagine what that 3% added to profits would do for stock prices... and bonuses.

is like fighting to save the life of a parasite attached to the patient that's slowly killing him (or her).

Simple as that.

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