Teabaggers and Health Care

[Danno]

I think the free market system is a wonderful way to go for health care reform. We currently don't have a free market in health care reform because insurance companies cannot compete across state lines. You are stuck with the policy you have and do not have the choice to find truly affordable health care.

An example would be Apple. Apple is making tons of money and no one is screaming about their corporate greed. I don't hear anyone saying that an iPod costs too much. Apple has given the technology industry a decade of great innovation because they were interested in, get this, profits! How dare them, I don't want my iPod anymore. This is what a truly free market will give us.

We have been brainwashed to think that our current system of healthcare is broken because of the greedy corporate executives of the insurance companies. Yes, they are driven by profits just like Apple but their hands are tied by the current Federal and State laws designed to protect us.

For a free market to truly exist it actually has to be a free market.

In terms of health care how does the free market focus on what is best for the people, the best way to treat people, the best way to cure illness? The answer... it doesn't. A corporations only obligation is to make as much profit as possible. That is the bottom line. A corporation doesn't exist to help people. There is no integrity in a corporation. There may be an appearance of integrity as a public relations gimmick but if anyone thinks that there is a corporation in existence that puts the best interest of the masses ahead of profit they would be sadly mistaken. Is a hospital there to help people or to make money? Do you think at their board meetings they agonize over losing a patient or the cost of a new piece of equipment? Is a phameceutical corporation there to help people or to make money? Look up the history of the Pure Food and Drug Act to see where an example of the down side of an unregulated free market.