Let's see......a couple of anonymous DU'ers---- or...............

[nashville_brook]

168. so, hey Frazzled -- I'm laughing my head off at your ludicrous (wrong, of course)

notion about my strange "anti-business theory." I love that you draw conclusions based on what electronic device someone uses to access discourse on the internet. Glad that someone could gift you a device that permits you to participate in such eloquent online discourse.

I've spent more time in the hospital in the last few years than most people will have to endure in their entire lives. The profit motive in insurance and healthcare corporations is not a "strange theory." It's a fact that these institutions have too much power, too little regulation and do not operate in the interest of people. They are, in fact, compelled by law to increase profit for shareholders. We're not going to fix the system by compelling the populace to increase the bottom lines of these corporations.

There's a big difference between healthcare and other forms of profiteering. I CHOOSE to participate in many different commercial enterprises. I don't have a choice of whether to participate in a for-profit healthcare organization. When a commercial enterprise such as DU or Publix or Starbucks provides bad service you might be unable to log-on, get a rotten bag of potatoes, or a crappy cup of coffee. When a hospital's profit-motive gets in the way of healthcare and shoddy care is provided, it results in medical outcomes that can be life-threatening. In my case, I went into a hospital with a herniated disc and came out with MRSA in my spine which I nearly died from. And which resulted immediately in 6 months in the hospital, 4 more months of home health care, another month in the hospital, a damaged liver, a damaged pancreas, DVTs, and has left me in pain for life...oh, and cost me nearly $50K out of pocket beyond what my insurance paid. And the joy of participating in this commercial enterprise continues as my spine continues to degrade, and the threat of infection lingers, as bone infections are never completely eliminated -- they're just pounded into submission.

Whatever truck you've had with anti-corporatist teeny-boppers is your own business. I'm not that, and your condescension does nothing to help whatever "team" you think you're rooting for here.

The insurance industry does not provide a service or a commodity. It's a middle-man that extracts money from the system and degrades the entire healthcare delivery system. We have a long way to go before any of this gets any better. The SCOTUS ruling was a step in the right direction, but the fight has just begun.