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[haele]

27. Lack of insurance/insurance shenanigans were killing people before -

Now it's only insurance shenanigans killing and bankrupting people.

It's better than the way it was before with the hypocrisy of "the uninsured getting free health care at the emergency room", but still akin to hopping out and hoping the require insurance plan allows one to land on the yet-to-be ignited coals rather than in the flames in an effort to exit both the frying pan and the fire.

The healthy people who avoided getting health insurance before now have to carry it, and employers who weren't offering health insurance before now have to offer it because the "government" can no longer continue to carry the tab for those who weren't paying into the system when they got sick before. The bad part - the fire - is that they're stuck with a "government" health care insurance requirement that was created and pushed through congress by corporate lobbyists instead of actual informed government studies and a congress interested in the welfare of the American people and economy.

That's not a rationalization. The system sucks, because it's the one the hysterical "OMG, it's communist!" small-government thinktanks, talking media conglomerate heads, and other greedy and apologetic corporate suck-ups across all the classes of citizenry would rather have.

The truth is an unregulated free market kills, by withholding needed services to those who can't pay for them, or by overcharging and cheating the system.
In an unregulated free market, wealth becomes it's own - and the only - virtue.
Compassion, pride in quality, innovation - if it don't make money for the people that sit on top of the heap, those are now sins in the free market.

Single payer is the only way to go if the private sector has any involvement in health care, and hopefully, with as more people get tired with how expensive it is allowing a business to regulate itself (could there be competition when the same parasitic board members and hedge fund "investors" simply rotate their way through all the major corporations that have anything to do with health? ha!), it will come into being within the next ten years.

Haele