Reply #42: Big Insurance and Big Pharma hire some of the biggest brains in the world to help them

[bertman]

figure out how to beat the fuck out of the government and the people. They use short term and long-term strategic thinking and planning. They also use their Congressional lackeys to provide the feints and jabs to make it look like someone is tagging them every now and then, when in reality they stagger back a few feet and then laugh at us.

For all of you who are so convinced that these proposed "reform" measures are going to lead to universal healthcare in the not-too-distant future, you should be aware that the de-fanging of the Public Option was done so it will fail by becoming what we all fear--a bloated, black hole of a money pit that future reformers will point at as the failed result of government intervention in the free market of health insurance.


This "incremental reform" is about as likely to lead to universal health care, as the vaunted "early withdrawal" technique is likely to prevent unwanted pregnancy.