please...stop calling it "health care reform" it was never that

[sabrina 1]

3. The Insurance companies were losing money. Unemployment affected them also, probably

cost them millions, maybe even billions. If nothing had been done, according to one report I read, many of them would have had to go out of business. They were desperate for a solution, and they got it.

Wendel Potter explained it several years ago. He was asked what his company thought when he showed them the video of Americans lining up outside animal stalls to get some free HC, did it make them feel bad that they had something to do with this? No, he said, what they saw were potentional customers. I think it was Moyers who asked him 'but how can poor people be good customers'?

Potter knew what they were going to do I think. Get that public money into their private hands, creating 30,000,000 new customers paid for by the tax payers. And the money is filtered through them now, instead of the way it was before. And they take their cut which is huge compared to the overhead of 3% when the government handles it.

So why do we need these middle men? What service do they perform that costs us at least 20% or more of that money?

It's such a shame that this country is so out of control when it comes to money that lives do not even factor in to the subject, even when it is supposedly about lives.