Most people should read and re-read the paragraph below as a textbook example of the doctrine of Fascism, as it relates to the Healthcare Reform debate:
Most Democrats are pushing for a public (universal healthcare) program to compete with private insurers to provide coverage, making it a contentious issue in the debate. Republicans and insurers say the public option could endanger the industry because the government program’s provider arrangements could have a lower cost structure than private companies.
Well, we can’t have that now can we?
Now, in what universe other than in today’s misguided world does anyone worry about “endangering” the profit structure of the healthcare industry FIRST, and then treat the endangerment of human lives last, as a sort of afterthought.
We’re not even talking about providing “health care” on Capital Hill, we are talking about providing “health insurance industry care”. And why not. We’ve already provided taxpayer-funded “banking industry care” to those poor, socially maladjusted, money-lusting speculators in the global derivatives casino (one of Obama’s new social obligations to citizenship–subsidizing the compulsive behavioral problems of the clinically obsessed billionaires whose gambling addictions and socio-pathic behaviors need to be gently modified, so as to minimize uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms).
Likewise, perhaps we should all just learn to turn the other cheek and “feel good about saving” the lifestyles of 14 million dollar per year “health industry” CEO’s whose daily regimen of devising legal schemes to profit from healthcare denial is pretty taxing after all - analyzing these plans with scores of expensive attorneys to satisfy profit seeking Board members and demanding shareholders.
We don’t want some pesky GOVERNMENT program getting in the way of profits with some misguided idea of providing social services to promote the general welfare, safety and well being of its people–how can the private sector compete with that?
Poor, poor millionaires. We should all help them out by denying those expensive magnetic imaging scans and other costly treatments to the undeserving masses, whose tax dollars can only prop them up so far.
I know I want to forego my MRI so that Ed Hanway can make his revenue target at Cigna this year. It’s the least I can do for MY COUNTRY – how about you COMRADE?
Just read the paragragh above and over and eventually, you’ll come to understand the wisdom of our economic masters and develop the passive restraint to make YOUR PERSONAL SACRIFICE for the Obatherland.
Update: I would ask you to read the paragraph in the actual Bloomberg article except that it has been completely re-written and the text omitted. Perhaps this is Laura Litvan’s personal editorial sacrifice to the Obatherland.
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My comment is not for this particular post. It’s the way I view not only this post but your entire site. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!! Our tax dollars has already made these white collar criminals too wealthy already!
But why should they think any different? We’ve bailed out these people several times over the past century. They knew the taxpayers money would come to the rescue when they entered their ‘den of theives’.