TPM: "Premiums do not reflect the full cost of coverage."

[Dragonfli]

112. We never passed or even tried to pas a health care law, we passed a law to mandate insurance

Insurance has nothing at all to do with health care, they do no check ups, perform no procedures, surgeries or therapies. They do not even operate x-ray equipment or have technicians that draw blood.

The only purpose health insurance serves is as a completely unnecessary middleman that if anything strives really hard to discourage or outright block you from receiving health care while charging you for their assault. That is a simple fact. They serve an equivalent relationship to health care that a protection racket mobster serves to the safety of shop owners, they are protection racketeers really, if one were to honestly review what they do for health care.

But hey, it was more important to feed a vampirific and completely unnecessary industry with a new captive group of victims to receive their non-services (or more aptly healthcare denial services) because you know, our money won't fly into their accounts without a bit more strong arming because they were losing customers that no longer had/have the money in the budget to pay them to deny care whenever possible.

Like any good mobster that was having trouble getting protection money from clients that ran out of money, they called up some strong arms on their payroll in Government to twist some arms and break some kneecaps and force the poor bastards to pay the protection. All the arm twisting and broken kneecaps that made sure they'd get their protection money won't help their "customers" who simply don't have the money for deductibles and co-pays get actual health care.

So lets just put getting rid of mobsters that do nothing but suck profit and deny health care on the list of things that impede health care when we pass the next, I mean first health care law in this country and join the rest of the world that does not understand the cruelty of our mobster middle-men, our double cost of health care, and our inability to receive very much health care even with our extra costs and myriad of middle-man mobsters.

Let's pass a health care law and not a protection racket protection act before we talk about making the protection racket slightly less abusive yet still unnecessary and evil in the future.

I know, I know, I don't understand the need to prop up our uniquely American industry of vampires and mobsters because I hate capitalism, yadda, yadda, derp.