Remember, Private Insurance Corps Could End the Health-Care Crisis Today If They Wanted to
But one central, over-riding fact in the debate over health care always gets lost — it was lost in the 1994 debate over “Hillarycare,” and it was never addressed in the debates in 2009 and last year that resulted in the Affordable Care Act reforms.
It’s this: The huge, multi-level crisis we’re facing in health care was, in fact, created by the private health insurance companies. The failure of the private “system” that has left millions of Americans without health-care coverage is a result of policies created — not in Congress, not in an Executive Branch regulatory office — but in the executive suites of private health-insurance corporations.
In October 2009, John Boehner, now the House speaker-elect, complained to a reporter for the Washington Times, “[Democrats are] writing a health care bill in secret, even though the president called for all of this to be out on an open table and have C-SPAN cameras in the room.” Not surprisingly, the Washington Times, a right-wing propaganda daily owned by Sun Yung Moon, leader of the South Korean “Moonie” cult, 