Health Insurance Rates to Double by 2020 ....

[debbierlus]

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/22/insurance-rates-... /

....unless cost controls are put in place.....

The insurance industry may win this battle. Who knows? But, they won't win the war. They simply can't win the war. There is only so much money you can pillage from the people before they have nothing left to take. Mandantory private insurance certainly won't fix the problem, we have it here in MA & it isn't financially sustainable in the SHORT run (financially insolvent in the next year to year & a half). My own sister can't afford insurance for her family of three under the plan (1,400 dollars a month for a family of three making 70,000).

This entire health care 'debate' is utterly insane. There has been almost no dialogue about the simplest, most cost effective, and effective solution for the crisis (single payer). Just a big song & dance about why we have to elevate a completely corrupt & broken private system to a government mandated national level, all so they can keep profiteering off human illness.

It is disgusting. I don't know how any politician can get away with protecting private insurance companies and their profits. Akin to making an argument about why a human infected with a parasetic leech should keep feeding the blood sucker on its body, after all, if you don't allow it to feed anymore, it will die.

I am disgusted with the whole thing. Remove the damn leeches, I mean kick the private insurance companies out of the system!