Obamacare written to deceive the public.

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insurance companies are profit-driven.

It's worse than that.

The first thing I learned in Organizational Behavior class in business school is "don't reward A and hope for B". This common sense advice is sometimes not so commonly heeded in the world, in business or elsewhere. If you're not getting what you want out of your employees (or children or friends or whatever) review what you're rewarding and how. You will get what you compensate for.

Health insurance companies make money when people are denied care. Their ideal business model is to collect premiums every month and never have to provide any health care at all. Yet, we hope that health insurance companies will provide health care to its members?

This is why health insurance companies can be expected to deny care claims wherever they can get away with it, drag out compensation to doctors, make doctors jump through administrative hoops to get compensation, knock sick people off the roles, etc.

Oh, and did I mention that there are only a few companies and the product is something that has no good substitutes and people can't just decide to do without? They can jack up their rates all they like and gouge the hell out of the rest of America.

So not only do we have this useless "middle man" in our health care but that middle man has a vested interest to work against providing health care.

This is like putting foxes in charge of the chicken coup and hoping the foxes will starve themselves in order to take care of the chickens out of the kindness of their hearts. And we wonder why the foxes keep eating the chickens instead?

The way we run health care in America is positively insane.

No wonder we pay the most and get the least for our healthcare in America.





P.S. Obamacare, using my chicken coup analogy, is like trying to regulate the foxes so they can't eat quite so many chickens. It's an improvement but our system requires an overhaul, not a band aid.