Thinking about this whole "health care reform" debacle and ruminating on the degree to which our conservaDems on the Finance Committee are owned by the insurance industry, I am left with a question - what can we do about it?
- We could band together and form a national lobbying group, a sort of ActBlue with top-notch lobbyists to compete with industry lobbyists. If we can't elect enough honest Democrats that look out for the people who voted for them, maybe en masse we can overwhelm the corporate-funded lobbyists.
- We could, as a country, just refuse to buy insurance if the "reform" bill passes with no public option and no cost controls. It would be a giant "F**K YOU" to AIG, Humana, AvMed, and their hand puppets Baucus and Conrad. I dare them to try and arrest or fine sixty million or so of us.
- We could, as a group, form a national nonprofit health care organization somewhat along the lines of a credit union. We would all chip in monthly dues which would go into a pool and be used to pay for prescriptions, doctor's office visits, preventative care, and the like. Since it's nonprofit, after paying administrative fees any dues left over could go into a catastrophic insurance fund to pay for members with expensive illnesses instead of pumping up investor dividends or CEO bonuses.
I must admit, I would love to put the health insurance industry out of business. If we can't get the quailing Finance Committee dems to stand up against the keyboard commandos and their loopy unhinged sign-wavers them we may just have to take the insurance industry out ourselves.