The Devil and Private Health Insurers

The health insurance industry sold its soul to the devil a long time ago. Any industry that extracts outrageous profits from the suffering of others has clearly made a faustian bargain.

There really is nothing to fear from universal coverage. The most likely scenario is that all Americans will be guaranteed a basic level of health coverage, and will have the option to purchase any supplemental coverage on the free market.

Reducing the costs of health care while ensuring coverage for all is a very good idea for our economy and the health of our people. No other advanced economy allows so many to go without health care coverage, or wastes as much money as the US does on health care.

Even employers are beginning to see that the current system is broken, and calling for universal and portable coverage. Nobody benefits from our current system except for the insurance companies that inflate the cost of health care. The poor, the jobless, and the youth of our nation have been victimized for far too long.