August 19, 2009
Health insurance companies are to blame? Amazing how it’s never government.

Posted at 6:41 pm, in: Health Care
Tags: Democrats, Government Intervention, Greed, Health Insurance, Oil Companies

Congress thinks it can just demand to see private insurance company files? I guess when the president can fire the head of a car company, they’re not that far off base with this assumption:

House Democrats are probing the nation’s largest insurance companies for lavish spending, demanding reams of compensation data and schedules of retreats and conferences.

Letters sent to 52 insurance companies by Democratic leaders demand extensive documents for an examination of ‘extensive compensation and other business practices in the health insurance industry.” The letters set a deadline of Sept. 14 for the documents.

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, signed the three-page letter dated Monday.

I mean, maybe I’m missing something. Why is Congress getting involved and demanding the records of 52 insurance companies? Have they been knocking on the Capitol’s door looking for a handout? What business does the government have in looking at these records of private companies? Other than to paint the insurance companies in a bad light in order to bolster their arguments for health care reform, of course. Oh wait! I forgot. It’s not health care reform, anymore. It’s health “insurance” reform. You have to pay attention and watch closely for those shifts in terminology. Up next: More to come from the Ministry of Truth.

This wouldn’t be as insulting if it weren’t so transparent. Obama lied but the Democrats transparent elitism didn’t die? Why do politicians hate profit so much? Does someone need to explain basic economics to them? I recommend Thomas Sowell’s book with that title. It’s very easy to understand. I bet even a Democrat could grasp it.

Remember the good old days when it was just the oil companies they attacked? The oil companies and their pursuit of profit was killing the planet! Remember those days? Now it’s the greedy insurance companies killing the people. Blah, blah, blah. Everyone is evil…except the Democrats, of course. It couldn’t be their greed for money and power that motivates their political agendas and policy votes. They’re just looking out for all of us morons who they have deemed too stupid to look out for ourselves. You know that’s what they’re saying to us, right?

That’s what all of these policies are saying to us. We need to be protected from ourselves by those who know better than we do what is good for us. And, who knows better than some politician what is best for you? If you thought yourself you were wrong. Don’t believe me? Just look at the rhetoric coming out from our leaders. You’re too stupid to read a health insurance policy and make the best decision for you and your family so they’re going to do it for you.

The insurance companies aren’t evil and they’re not the ones to blame. Take away all of the profits and perks they enjoy and they’ll seize to exist. What would you prefer, greedy companies who benefit you as a result of their greed, or no companies at all? The government wants no companies at all. They want us all to be dependent on them. It ensures them votes. All they have to do is keep using future generations’ money to buy our votes by promising us free health care, retirement money, digital television, high-speed Internet…and, the list could go on.

I will repeat for the, well I don’t know how many times, thousandth time: I am not against health care reform, or maybe even health insurance reform, I’m against what is being proposed. I don’t think that the insurance companies and pharmeceutical companies, and the doctors are necessarily to blame. I think they do what they need to in order to survive the system our government has created. If Congress truly wants to reform health care and lower costs they should get out of health care all together. Since they’re so eager to experiment with reform, let’s try that reform. If less government and intervetion doesn’t work, we can always try this option. But, if we try more regulation first, history has show us the less option will be forever off the table.