On Sep 15, 10:01*am, Bryan > wrote:
> On Sep 15, 8:54*am, John Galt > wrote:
>
> > Bryan wrote:
> > > On Sep 15, 7:04 am, John Galt > wrote:
> > > A bunch of crap about greed being virtuous.
>
> > Never said that. Who are you responding to?
>
> Quote: "Profit in America is good..."
>
> The idea that profit, in itself, is a moral good is a twisted
> ideology.
>
> I'm not a socialist. *I recognize that self interest works to motivate
> and spurs innovation, but the health insurance companies are
> parasites. *Even so, I'd like to see them slowly made irrelevant,
> rather than done away with in short order as they so richly deserve,
> because a sudden move to single payer would be too disruptive even in
> more prosperous times.
>
> Ownership (ownability) is a social construct, not a sacred property
> inherent in anything possessible, and many things just shouldn't be in
> private, for-profit hands. *Health insurance has proven to be one of
> them.

Which is exactly why all health insurers should be NOT FOR PROFIT
corporations!!!

John Kuthe...