Reply #4: you know, I don't think they are.

[Warpy]

Even they are suffering the effects of corporatized health care when they have enough of a health emergency to go to the hospital here instead of jetting off to Thailand. I've worked in VIP wards and wings and they're just as short staffed as the rest of the house. Face it, the care isn't very good anywhere (or not nearly as good as it should be), no matter what the decor is like.

I think the only people fighting this are the insurance giants. They know some form of it is inevitable, but they're trying to keep their cash cows.

That's why Hillary's plan leaves the health care giants in place with no public alternative, why it has no mechanism for stopping the denial of part or total payment, the denial of care, itself.

They're now pushing for a universally unaffordable and universally bad insurance system that would leave their power and profits intact.

I doubt the ruling class have been consulted beyond telling them that some form of universal care is now inevitable.