LilBob

The Link Between Bankruptcies and Health Care Reform

The real reason that we won't see any real reform to health care is that AMA members and individual insurance brokers support both major political parties through local campaign donations throughout the country. Does anyone really think that either the Democrats or the Republicans are going to pass legislation that will piss off two very influential groups of campaign contributors...Campaign contributors whose dollars support grass-roots political chapters all across the country. What we have right now is window dressing. If anyone was really interested in fixing the problem the reports on how to fix problems with health care would only be 120 pages long instead of 1200 pages long. One thing about the english language and government documents that will never change; the great truths come in short sentences...the longer the report, the more likely you're going to get a huge pile of BS that feigns honesty.

The real key to fixing health care (if anyone actually wanted to do that) would be anti-trust legislation to break up medical technology, pharmaceutical and insurance oligopolies-thereby increasing the number of players in the market and spurring greater free market competition. You want to know how dedicated the government really is to health care reform? Watch to see how many mergers in any of the three categories mentioned above are struck down for being counter to the interest of consumers over the course of the next two to three years.