If you want to hear something shocking, here it is: I think we should abolish for profit health insurance. It is one of the dumbest and most harmful “innovations” in history. (thanks very much, Baylor University Hospital).
We should either be on a single payer system OR if you don’t want to throw 1M+ people out of work (if you work for Blue Cross you should be shot, not fired) they should be on the cost plus 10 model, which is the pricing that government vendors are forced into.
How is Healthcare any less important than electricity, gas, or phones? Those are public utilities whose pricing is regulated by state and federal governments to make it accessible to all Americans. Healthcare is too expensive, wasteful, and not universally available because we’re paying retail on something that has such a high markup to benefit stockholders and not the public.
I know, I know. I’m a communist and Glenn Beck would gouge my eyes out. Problem is, I don’t get the stipend and honorariums from the insurance lobby that Glenn Beck gets for his “speeches”.
And no, I won’t be supporting either the Pelosi, Reid, or Baucus versions of healthcare. Half measures will end up costing us more and providing less. If they can’t garner a consensus in this environment that healthcare is irretrievably broken as a direct result of for-profit insurance then they don’t deserve their phony baloney jobs.
President Obama, if you want impress me, stop fighting the fights you think you can win and START FIGHTING THE FIGHTS THAT NEED FIGHTING!!!
Friday, November 6, 2009
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