the complete ignorance of what health insurance is meant to be is the problem. this strange belief that everyone should be able to receive top of the line medical services at the drop of a hat is the problem. the scapegoating of any industry that has the audacity to abide by sound business practices is the problem. while fools run around railing against the supposedly obscene profits raked in by insurance companies, what they fail to mention is that, even in our nearly illiterate society, the publishing industry's profit margin is more than twice that of health insurance providers. while pharmaceutical manufacturers and utility companies are running profit margins three, four or even five times that of the insurance industry, it is health insurance that is targeted simply because little jimmy can't get his flu shot on someone else's dime. the greedy mob has decided that they aren't getting enough free stuff and the cause celebres is now to bring the insurance companies to their knees. these are publicly traded companies, not charitable institutions, and to demand that they give away their services is to decimate the industry and flush away the investments of millions of americans.
by what right does anyone demand that their health care be subsidized by anyone else? that's what this is really all about, now isn't it. the anecdotal tirades of liberal talking heads amount to nothing more than the demand that government use its threat of violence to force the successful to foot the bill for the medical care of the indigent. the much touted public option is nothing more than another of government's useless give-aways designed to redistribute the wealth of the productive and bring an even larger portion of the market under the bureaucratic thumb of political hacks. it is an expansion of the welfare state that has been undermining the productivity of this country for decades and creating a permanent underclass. government run health care is just another ploy to strip private enterprise and the people themselves of what power they still retain. that the naive followers of the left should applaud this move toward totalitarianism is no great surprise, they have been seduced by the lies of their masters for so long that they can no longer tell the difference between reality and the illusions of comfort and security that our power hungry rulers have cast over us.
health insurance isn't a discount card, it is a safety net and a gamble that your premiums will amount to less than the cost of your future medical expenses. demanding that the odds of that wager be increasingly slanted away from the providers of this service would essentially kill off a large portion of one of the greatest economic powerhouses the world has ever known and it is a step we can ill afford as our global power weakens.
