Thank you, Ira Glass and This American Life, for using your track record of excellent shows explaining the financial crisis to come to the defense in your latest show of the beleaguered Big Health Insurers who have been so unfairly subjected to day after day of attacks by the liberal media.
It's only fair that with the liberal Media doing its utmost to misinform Americans as to the supposed 'superiority' of universal healthcare in other nations that This American Life step up to the plate to illuminate the inherent fiscal virtuousness of Aetna purging tens of thousands of its least 'profitable' policy-holders.
Indeed, with an approximately 20 minute segment about the history of health insurance in the United States, why should "This American Life" CONFUSE its listeners with explanations as to why universal healthcare can work just fine in other capitalistic countries but not here? Such issues are of no benefit at all when it comes to painting American Health Insurers as victims of willfully ignorant (we don't DARE use the word 'greedy') policyholders and doctors. Indeed, somebody needs to get a hold of President Obama STAT to tell him that the answer to all our problems is putting a cap on all medical costs!
So thanks again, "This American Life" and indeed, NPR - for your courage in identifying the REAL little guy in the healthcare reform debate - the Health Insurance Industry. It's especially illuminating during pledge drives like the one going on here in New York City to know where your priorities lie.
Information about the episode in question: "Someone Else's Money" can be found HERE (I'm assuming it will be available as a podcast sometime in the near future).