Naturally, big insurance does not want to actually pay 80 cents for every dollar to the people their entire business is supposedly designed to help. That means only 20% of their income can be used to pay off share holders, deliver bonuses, build superfluous skyscrapers, lobby in politics, or advertise. For rich white men, this is unacceptable. Why settle for only a little profit when you could have millions more?
Since the G.O.P. was bought by insurance and stymied the health care plan, they at least don't have to worry about the government becoming a competitor, which is all they were worried about anyway. Of course the for-profit, scim-off-the-top middle men don't want the government in the game. The government is non-profit and could actually deliver on giving out lower prices. But then the media (which is heavily sponsored by insurance companies which run adds all over their channels for millions of dollars) stirred up an irrational phobic smear campaign against the idea, and the limp-dicked Democrats did what they usually do when stupid people yell sound-bytes loudly: back down.
So now things are returning to the status quo: big insurance will lose its obligation to actually serve the American people, and instead return to their zealous worship of Mammon.
Meanwhile, England might be taking a radical step forward in the direction of Obvious-ville. In order to save money from vanishing into the insurance companies which got themselves involved in their "national" health care plan by their politician buddies (exactly what happened to Obama-care earlier this year, btw), they are planning on killing the insurance industry right out. Why? Because they finally might be realizing what a scam the entire industry is.
They stepped back and asked: Why don't we just give money right to the doctors?
Duh.
Will this ever happen in America? Not while insurance companies donate millions to the G.O.P.
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