Why play fair when you can play by Health Insurance Rules?

While noodling around the internet tonight, I came across the most interesting site: Health Insurance Rules: High costs, Empty choices, No guarantees.” This is part of Health Care for America Now.

It’s a great way to learn the good, the bad and the truly ugly when it comes to how for-profit insurance companies - the real nut of the problem in this health reform debate - operate. In fact, you can tour Private Insurance 101 ( takes 15 minutes, tops ) to get a better understanding of just what the few rules are that ‘govern’ this pirate industry of anything goes. I even got a better understanding of what the Insurance Company Rules are in my own fair state of Nevada.

But in case this doesn’t quite convince you that something needs to be done about for-profit health insurance companies, I took a look at the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation hearings on Competition in the Health Care Marketplace, with the majority statement being written by Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, D- W. Virginia:

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Talking points: A fact sheet on health care reform issues

In today’s Reno Gazette-Journal there was an article entitled: ‘Competition absent among private insurers’. This wasn’t a surprise to anybody that is actually sentient and intellectually concious, and a fact that seems to be repeatedly missed by the purveyors ofthe neo-con dogma.

Once again, I’d provide the link if I could find the article on the RGJ cum USA Today site.

Here’s the bottom line: opponents of health care reform say that a public option would doom the private insurers by squashing competition. The idea being, I guess, that the public option would be so great that we’d all flock to it? Isn’t that the whole idea of competition in a free marketplace? I mean, the Big Insurance Companies would have to get off their backsides and really provide service and a product. Wow, just how unfair is that?

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