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Are you confident that your health care provider (assuming you can afford one) makes decisions in your best interest?
If the answer is "no", then you are the target of an unprecedented media blitz designed to coerce you into telling Congress to stop reforms that may erode the obscene profits of the gargantuan US health care business.
Make no mistake. Many giant health care corporations are doing very, very well for themselves despite the Bush-legacy economic downturn. They don't want change - unless change means higher margins for them by providing fewer benefits for you.
Industry opposition to sensible reform proposals was the dominant factor in slowing the pace of negotiations in the House, resulting in this week's announcement that the Senate cannot meet President Obama's preferred target date for a final bill.
Agreeing to provide better, more economical care just doesn't appeal to the bottom-line boys who call the shots at the big hospitals, insurers and pharma conglomerates.
Unlike the American Medical Association, the powerful profits-before-people lobby has yet to endorse any of the current reform bills, because they are demanding that the profit-eroding public insurance and Medicare payment options must be scrapped.
The irony of the fox trying to dictate the height of the fence around the henhouse is inescapable.
If the answer is "no", then you are the target of an unprecedented media blitz designed to coerce you into telling Congress to stop reforms that may erode the obscene profits of the gargantuan US health care business.
Make no mistake. Many giant health care corporations are doing very, very well for themselves despite the Bush-legacy economic downturn. They don't want change - unless change means higher margins for them by providing fewer benefits for you.
Industry opposition to sensible reform proposals was the dominant factor in slowing the pace of negotiations in the House, resulting in this week's announcement that the Senate cannot meet President Obama's preferred target date for a final bill.
Agreeing to provide better, more economical care just doesn't appeal to the bottom-line boys who call the shots at the big hospitals, insurers and pharma conglomerates.
Unlike the American Medical Association, the powerful profits-before-people lobby has yet to endorse any of the current reform bills, because they are demanding that the profit-eroding public insurance and Medicare payment options must be scrapped.
The irony of the fox trying to dictate the height of the fence around the henhouse is inescapable.
