Arizona has a health insurance program where under certain conditions small business could get health insurance at 'reasonable' prices.
Well, surprise! People with health problems actually migrated to the program as the 'private' insurance companies cherry picked the healthy to insure (cutting them off if the insured got sick, of course).
The state program is in debt while the 'private' insurance scammers are poster boys for how greed works in this country.
Now Republican legislators are arguing for the abandonment of the program and, of course, for turning over more business to 'private' insurance.
At one time insurance was about getting as large a group as possible to contribute to a fund that would cover everyone with the understanding that not everyone would need to draw from the fund. That's called benefiting society, which many people understand (not including a surprising number of Republicans) to be of ultimate benefit to us all whether we ever need the help or not.
Now insurance is about pretending to insure people only to cut them off when they actually need help. That's called a scam.
The only way to solve this problem is to insure everyone and we actually have a system that the Bush Administration has not managed to destroy so far and it's called Medicare.
There is absolutely not reason for the continued transfer of our money to satisfy the greed of insurance companies. No reason other than the complicity, cowardice and greed of politicians.
Source: Arizona health program in peril by Amanda J. Crawford
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