Take just a moment to really think about the health insurance industry.What other industry maximizes its profit through a business model structured
to screw its customers, let alone in a manner that puts its customers' health
and even very lives at risk? (OK, OK--the tobacco industry, for one., but humor me.)
Those who argue against rebuilding the nation's health
insurance programs are doing a disservice to the well-being of all
American citizens, and in a very real sense, to the national security
of this country. After sponsoring untold billions of dollars spent
bailing out banks, investment banks, and automotive companies, it's
time for the Obama Administration to focus on bailing out "we the people."
In spite of rhetorical and misleading hyperbole foisted on the American public by an insurance industry whose virtually unchecked monopoly over the adjudication of health care claims would be compromised, there is a legitimate argument in favor of increasing competition among insurers, and every American citizen stands to benefit.
Rather than kow-towing to the self-interested, self-promoting, self-ish
insurance industry, which today has a vested interest in maximizing its
profit by rejecting legitimate medical claims, a public option would not
only provide much needed competition, but would undoubtedly force
private insurers to revisit their knee-jerk tendency to engage in zero-sum
profitability, where every dollar of care that is denied converts automatically to a
dollar of profit. Who among us, after all, hasn't had to endure a frustrating
and seemingly endless series of arguments with their health care insurer in order
to get legitimate claims paid?
