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Edited on Thu Sep-03-09 12:42 AM by RandomThoughts
The Far Right and the corporate interest are never satisfied, they always want more and more.
So when 2012 rolls around, if there was not a public option, they could do what ever they want with insurance prices and blame it on President Obama's health care, while millions of people are also complaining about a mandate given to insurance companies, and low income people given tax dollars in the form of money to give to the insurance companies because of a mandate.
As the insurance companies would be getting more profit, those same companies could raise prices and then through surrogates call all Democrats ridiculous since they passed the bills that gave them more profit, so they could get Republican in office to give them even more profit. Literally what they got away with they would use to further thump the Democrats for letting them get away with it.
If there is a public option and they raise prices, people can say, see this is why we need the public option, since social control or profit only raising of prices would not happen in the public option, by raising profits they would increase the reason for needing the public option. And the differential between the public option, and the private option would increase.
If they lower prices to make the public option less of an advantage, then the public option did what it was suppose to do, it provided the competition.
The key component most democrats miss is they think in terms of fairness or what is right, or in working together. In the mind set of always wanting more, those things do not compute. You make a fair deal and think they will play along, but profit systems wont stick to a fair deal, they can't, if they did they would be removed and replaced for not trying to make more profit.
The one sticking point is that they may try to get businesses to drop coverage and then blame it on reform. But they already do that if it is not profitable. The refusal of care of higher price patients to make the public option more expensive becomes there only action to make the public option seem bad, which is why rules on preexisting conditions and refusal of care are also needed.
If the Insurance companies have the ability to set prices, they have already shown they will use that ability to make more profits, and getting far right Republicans elected is one way they would act to try and raise profits. If you think some deal will stop them, you have not watched history, they are willing to throw anyone under the bus for profit, even the Republican party that supported them for years, they are willing to shatter to fight the public option, look what they have made them look like just to try and defend profits and social control. If you make a deal they will not honor it, because anyone in there group that does will be replaced by someone that wants more profit.
This is no direct offense to people in the insurance companies or corporate America, many are really good people, but they have a charter to make profit, and they know that. Only regulation and competition can give them an opportunity at delivering a product and not social control by hurting people.
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