For several decades now I have thought that the basic premise of for profit medical insurance is immoral. And, that some aspects of our so called for profit “health insurance” are demonic. Until now I didn’t say or write the word demonic. That was mostly because of the popular meaning of demonic as expressed in movie theaters.
For profit health insurance companies make money by not providing the service their salesmen say they provide. If you get really sick, expensive sick, you can count on your for profit health insurance company doing everything possible to keep from paying to make you well. It becomes a demonic industry when the companies go so far not to do what they advertise to do, that is pay for your care when you get sick; that they hold off your health care so that you die and they invest the money they promised to use to pay for your care. Insurance executives grow wealthy this way. Your slow and painful death is assured by a bureaucrat typing on a keyboard one thousand miles away so that his boss can profit from your death. That’s demonic, maybe more demonic than anything the Camorra or Mafia has done.
Instead of helping ordinary people Republicans march in lock step with for profit “health” insurance companies. It appears that the GOP grows wealthy in this way.
The Conscience of a Liberal
Paul Krugman
March 17, 2010, 11:31 am
Demons And Demonization
The usual suspects have been attacking Obama for “demonizing” insurance companies; but saying that people do terrible things isn’t demonization if they do, in fact, do terrible things.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/demons-and-demonization/
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