Thanks for the links, fishpole. Quoting from the first one:

"“Our medical system is dysfunctional and bad not just for our health, but for our entire economy,” said Bernard Rapoport, founder and former CEO of the American Income Life Insurance Company. Rapoport, a member of the America’s Agenda governing board, said “soaring costs are undermining the competitiveness of American business in the global economy. The U.S. is the only country in the industrialized world that doesn’t have publicly-financed health insurance, so American companies are burdened with expenses others don’t have, endangering our manufacturing base.” As examples, he cited Ford Motor Co. that spends $3.2 billion a year on health premiums and General Motors that spends more on health than on steel."


The way we finance health care is bad for businesses and bad for America.

The wierd thing is that we have this huge politically powerful monster, the health insurance industry, which is a parasite with a strangle hold on the health care system.

Even the new Medicare Drug program is set up for the benefit of the insurance companies and the drug companies, not for the benefit of seniors.

The drug program is run through insurance companies. To get benefits you have to sign up for an insurance company plan. The insurance companies are totally parasitic. They are like a mafia, skimming off a substantial part of whatever we spend on healthcare.