Reply #51: Oh, I'm no fan whatsoever of the insurance companies

[customerserviceguy]

paying armies of people to sit around and figure out how to not pay for something, then paying another army of people to piss away money on advertising to cherry pick the "good" people away from each other is the grossest waste I can imagine. We will have to go to single payer, but if I look at the direction President Obama and even the Democratic Congress are going, all I can say is that it is not likely to happen until after Obama's re-election. Our leadership just seems to have no stomach for it.

I will say one thing though, hospitals run by religious organizations are a very large part of the health care system in this country. I used to work for a company that sold endoscopy equipment, and fully a quarter of the institutions I dealt with on the phone were faith-based, a large proportion of them were Catholic. You cannot shut those organizations down, that would leave a very large number of people without care in the US. And if you force them to offer things that they are morally opposed to, you will give them no alternative but to shut down.

May as well try to force the corner kosher deli to serve BLT sandwiches.