Reply #35: Actually, the core issue is that for-profit companies should not be

[JDPriestly]

taking a portion of our health care dollars. For-profit companies add absolutely nothing to the provision of health care in America.

Doctors take an oath to do no harm. For-profit companies do not.

If Congress is afraid to take for-profit companies our of the provision of health care then it should, by law, impose a fiduciary duty on them to their subscribing patients. That way, a patient could sue the insurance company if the insurance company does not pay for the services that the patient needs.

I can understand tort reform to reduce damages in litigation when it comes to the doctors and nurses, but I believe that same tort reform should increase the risk that insurance companies take if they don't follow the law or don't pay for needed services.

This bill is not just a bad bill. It is a horrible bill. It will cause more problems than it solves. That's because the for-profit insurance industry is perverse. It does not care about people at all.