National Health Cares smoke and mirrors!

For weeks now, most of the news has been about health care reform, or at least the battle for what goes into it. What seems to be a partisan debate to most is more of a money debate to me. Who’s making it, who’s taking it, and who stands to lose!

First the Insurance companies are undoubtedly worried that their profit margins will go down due to the cost of government backed insurance will be less expensive then the private insurer’s. Taking some of the customers that can currently afford private insurance away. Profits that are currently regulated by lobbyist firms that grease the wheels of government.

Second is the Politicians and  lobbyist who stand to lose the money to keep the system going business as usual. The lobbyist will lose money from the insurance companies, and possibly the pharmaceutical companies. This money is to insure that politicians are bought off and sympathetic to the corporate cause. Republicans seem more apt to lose in this situation, due to the neo-conservative nature of the party. That’s not to say the Democrats do not profit from these lobbies. There is enough profit to go around. The argument that the insurance companies will not remain profitable is a mute point. If they took the millions of dollars they spend on politicians, and reduced prices, they would be just as competitive as anyone else. After all, it is as simple addition and subtraction. Money comes in and money goes out, the greed factor is what the real controversy is about. How much do these corporate exec’s make, spend, or need? But in America big business usually wins over the interest of the people!

 Last, but by no means least “the people”. They stand too lose nothing if this public option is left out. You can’t lose what you never had. Health care has been a staple topic in every election I’ve seen for the last24 years. Never has the subject gone on this long before. It is a good show, but like the stimulus packages, when it is finally over, will there be any real changes?

If the public option is left in the people stand to gain Medical treatment. The hospitals and health care providers gain more profitability, and prices should fall due to less uninsured patients taking resources.

So the real debate is who is more important, the people or the money that is passed around between the politicians and corporations? In California Prop 103 is an example of the power of the insurance companies to stifle the will of the people! And the power money has over politics and our court system. The open debate currently going on now is smoke and mirrors for the publics consumption. This is to give the people the idea that they matter to the politicians.

We will have to wait and see what the final outcome is.