Jon Stewart expressed - in his unique style - anger and dismay at the insurance industry tonight. It seems that although the new Health Insurance Reform bill prohibits refusing coverage to children, inscos have already found a loophole.
Jon was shocked. Shocked! Not that there was a loophole, but that the inscos went looking for it. Are they just pure evil? Do they want to be sure to catch the Haydes Express?
No, Jon. It's far simpler than that. And less sinister.
What they are is businessmen. And corporations. And shareholders. They do not exist to help poor sick children. They exist to make money. That is the nature of the free market and for-profit service industry.
Which is of course the whole problem.
Three undeniable truths about the free market: You get what you pay for,
not everyone can afford everything, and profits come from charging more than cost.
As long as we have for-profit health insurance, we don't have univeral health care. By definition.
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