"Tim Daneliuk" wrote in message ...

That's all true as written, but is missing an essential point:
The *reason* things are the way they are is *because* government
got into the healthcare business in the first place. That
"bloated top-heavy insurance industry" is simply mimicking its
paymaster - the government. Adding more government - particularly
at the Federal level - will simply make things worse.


What? Can you point to executives of Medicare/Medicaid who are paid many
millions of dollars a year in the way the top execs of big health insurance
companies are paid millions or even tens of millions a year?¹ Can you show
that Medicare's administrative overhead is as great or greater than that of
private insurance companies? Can you demonstrate that the private medical
insurance industry is funded primarily by govt. (to justify your use of the
word "paymaster"? Does Medicare try to refuse patients or drop them when
they get sick the way the insurance industry does? Would the answers to
those questions be no, no, no and no?

However I admire the consistency of your ideology--claiming that the reason
private industry is ruthless, inefficient and greedy is because of the
government demonstrates a beautiful case of tunnel-vision.

¹The CEO of Cigna Corp. gets $21 million dollars a year, the CEO of Aetna
$24 million a year.

What are the two biggest sources of funding for lobbying and campaign
donations in Washington? Two industries--the insurance industry, and the
pharmaceutical industry, they each spend a hundred million a year. And who
financed opposition to health care reform? Among others Rick Scott, former
CEO of the nation's largest health care company (dumped during a fraud
investigation) and former partner of a certain former President in owning
the Texas Rangers--Scott spent $20 million telling the nation how evil it
would be to change the existing health care system. That today he owns a
chain of walk-in clinics is probably just a coincidence.