Attack Insurance Companies, Not Fox News

[harvey007]

Good read --

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/488522/what_if_instead_of_fox_team_obama_tackled_insurance_profiteers

[FiveGoodMen]

1. They BOTH deserve to be attacked

Why should we pick one?

[damntexdem]

3. Yes, indeed, attack both.

But in different ways. And the attack on the insurance companies can start with a Senate bill today -- but a conference committee will have to hone it into a sharper attack.

[sui generis]

2. Shouldn't have been "either/or"

He can multitask -

Obama plays a careful game on having a leading opinion on an industry that is 1/7th of our economy because it could and can cause the market to bobble.

Just the same, the market is going to bounce like a Harlem Trotter basketball NO MATTER WHAT the outcome is, until everyone adjusts and evolves, so Obama needs to play a less careful game and be that populist leader we elected.

Coddling the insurance companies as an equal participating entity is not being a populist leader. The primary healthcare insurance industry should not exist as a private enterprise any more than we should trust private enterprise to supply us with breathing air.

Elective healthcare - sure, no problem.