INSURANCE INDUSTRY, HEALTHCARE MIDDLEMAN

Republicans in congress are pushing for raises in the DOD budget, tax cuts for the super wealthy and continued subsidies for corporations. At the same time they are raging about healthcare costs and other social programs, proposing solutions that will only aggravate the situation instead of help. On Morning Joe,republican Senator and doctor Tom Coburn was asked by Mika Brezinski "if business is all about cutting out the middle man, if the middle man causes costs to increase, why do republicans want an insurance middleman in the healthcare industry"? He couldn't answer the question! First he gave some vague explanation about the Amish people, and then he switched to the standard repub talking point about transparency, which doesn't amount a hill of beans. Even as I write this article repub campaign donors are getting around that requirement in the law.
The issue of insurance middleman is an important one. If we are mandated to buy insurance could the insurance industry be prevented from continuously raising policy prices? I seriously doubt it! So just like the pharmaceutical prices the cost of healthcare will triple within a few years. We will be at their mercy. I don't think that is a place we want to be. The Ceo's will be making hundreds of millions of dollars a year and we'll be forced to pay outlandish premiums for inferior healthcare. If the middleman is taken out of the equation, you would have, at the very least, thirty percent more to spend on healthcare, not on administrative costs. How many billions of dollars would that save?
It would be better to pay more money into medicare and medicaid than to hand out money to insurance executives who can't be trusted to keep their word, even to investors and shareholders. Look at the way our retirement money is lost in the mutual funds and stock market. No, a better way would be to pay that money to the government for universal healthcare.
In this great country of ours healthcare should be a RIGHT,not a privilege. If we all paid ten dollars more a month towards medicare and medicaid how much better would that make the health delivery system? No doubt that every American could have more than adequate health care.
Why continue to let the insurance companies drive costs spiraling upward? So, no matter who advocates it, the individual MANDATE will definitely NOT be good for "we the people". The SCOTUS should strike down this part of the bill even if it causes the whole law to unravel. IT MAKES THE COST TOO HIGH! But mark my words, the court will rule in the interest of the insurance industry. It doesn't matter which justice votes in which direction, the result will still be the same. Corporations win, we the people lose! Even the highest court in the land will put corporate profits before "we the people".