We've been manipulated.

I have absolutely no faith in the private health insurance industry. I'd trust the devil before I'd trust the insurers. Because they are out to make obscene profits for the health care business. I want health care to be a non-profit industry. That includes the providers, the insurers, the phamaceutical businesses. You name it. The closest we can come to that, it seems to me, is to have Medicare for everyone. Yes, a public option. And only a public option. Universal health care under the auspices of the federal government. Not out to make profits. Get the profiteers out of the health care business. And get the whole shebang regulated. It'll happen some day. Because if we leave the private sector to run the show, we'll get more of what we have now. Higher and higher health care premiums. So that most of us won't even be able to afford it anymore. Largely because of the immense profits being stashed away by the providers. Take the insurers, for instance. It boils down to about five large corporations that have corraled almost the entire market. And they make obscene profits for their shareholders and executives. And they keep raising rates. So that they don't have to insure sick people. The ones that really need the insurance. And now the insurers are happy. Because Congress seems about ready to adopt legislation requiring everyone to buy insurance. Yes, from private insurers. That'll give the private insurers a vast pool of new customers. Many of 'em young people that generally don't get sick. Yes, health care in the United States is a racket. A rip-off. And it's gonna stay that way until we get real reform. No more private insurers. And Medicare for everyone. That ain't gonna happen. Under a Republican Congress. Or even under Obama-care. The health care profiteers are in the driver's seat. They know how to get what they want. But we, the people, we're too stupid to see what's happening. We've been manipulated. By the dirty rotten profiteering capitalists. --Jim Broede