For Any Democrat Who Is Tempted to Call the Health Insurance Industry Our Party’s BFF

[Doctor_J]

6. while I appreciate the two hours you spent on this, the only word for it is

preposterous. Allow me to address one representative paragraph+

Until some government bean counter notices that the federal government is doing most of the actual health care spending and the privates are collecting premiums but not paying out as much in expenditures. Until the bean counters notice that a lot of health insurance "expenditures" are actually meaningless internal Q&A--paper pushing.

Not only does every bean counter already know this, so does everyone else in the country, unless his/her brain is Fox-saturated. Actually everyone in the rich world knows this - which is why we're the only ones who pay "insurance" companies to...do nothing.

And, as health care spending grows and taxes grow and people demand tax relief, eventually the government will look at the private insurance company's profits and say "Do we really need this middle man here?... The private health insurance industry---if you think about it, they are not essential to life as we know it on this planet.

No kidding. Or rather duh. This is not a matter of suddenly waking up to this fact. It is patently obvious and has been for 25 years

We can collect premiums from healthy people and not pay out much in health care spending, too." And once that happens, the very next Democratic White House/ Congress combo will author ACA II---and the privates will be out

There's the preposterous part. The ACA, which used to be called Romneycare, and before that Gingrinchcare, and was developed by the right-wing propaganda house the Heritage Foundation, is exactly the plan the Hillary was campaining on during the 2008 primary. What on God's green earth makes you think she'll sign off on real health care? That "the very next Dem Congress" will do what 60 Senators, 258 Reps, and a Dem president wouldn't do in 2009-2010?

You are completely missing the big picture here. The 500 billion dollar giveaway to Big Insurance that Obama signed into law was not an anomaly. He has show for 5-1/2 years that he is a corporatist through and through. While he and the rest of the DC dems may not be Big Insurance's best friends, they're really, really good friends.

Your post makes it sound like the fact that Big Insurance is a blood-sucking, murderous crime organization is unknown. Everyone knows it. Finding someone with the political will power to take them on and defeat them is the problem.