". . . It's been clear for some time that America already has a universal health care system, it just works through pushing costs to states and localities and shunting people to emergency rooms where they die faster and their care costs more. Once we accept the framework that American taxpayers already pay for health care coverage for everyone, we just do it in the worst way possible, the argument changes from 'should the government pay for health care' to 'who's ripping us off'. And the answer is the health insurance industry.
These companies render our health care system bloated and inefficient, but let's be honest, that's somewhat dry language to describe what they are really doing. Through their immoral decisions to deny care and coverage based on excessive bureaucracy, the executives of these companies are simply killers. Their wealth is literally built with blood money. And their chief lobbyist, Tom Donahue, probably believes that there should be a special tax exemption for equipment to clean the blood off their hands. You might think I'm being rhetorically hot or irresponsible, but dealing with horrible customer service designed to deny you care when you have, say, cancer, demands a certain level of honest outrage. It isn't wrong to disdain these people, though I suppose that Very Serious People like to pretend that decisions made by a corporate elite denying millions medical care isn't actually murder by spreadsheet. But it is . . ."
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