Reply #4: There's a reason for that [View All]

[Warpy]

Congress is dithering and the health insurance giants are using the time to mount one of the craziest disinformation campaigns I've ever seen.

The truth is that universal health insurance would have to carry some sort of a mandate because there are always people out there who are too cheap to pay and too stupid to realize they're also going to get injured or sick some day.

What the insurance giants are doing is parading this as a mandate for their dubious services, their fondest wet dream. With their exemption from antitrust laws relieving them of much regulation including price regulation, it's a license to steal and they know it. The flip side of this is the alarmism they're spreading about being forced to buy a government plan and (wink wink) you know how terrible they always are.

I think their crowing is premature, to say the very least. So is the alarmism.

The truth is that neither they nor we know what form the final bill will take since neither house has passed one and the two bills will have to be reconciled into a final form for Obama's signature.