What do health insurance corporations do?

Everyone always points to the negatives about health insurance companies. And while there definitely are some, without these companies no one would be able to afford a catastrophic accident, cancer treatment or the like. Recently so much propaganda has come out decrying the evils of insurance companies, pharma etc. Look, there definitely are some but they are definitely better than giving up your power to choose to the government.

It has become popular for people to support universal or gov't run healthcare and it's proponents act as if fighting it is immoral and only motivated by money. This is not true.

Doesn't anyone else find it concerning congress is trying to push a revolution in health care so quickly? Health care is complex and without proper time and foresight, we will have an even more poorly run health care system controlled by people very removed from the reality of the system they have created. It will take years if not decades to undo. Look at some of the current gov't run programs: the post office, the DMV. Not exactly models of efficiency.

I am not sure if any of you work at the VA, but our VA is a complete nightmare. It is a model of inefficiency. It takes forever for anything to get done and people end up staying in the hospital days if not weeks longer than they should.

The main hospital I work at (in the same area as the VA) recieves most of its funding from the state to take care of the indigent population and has few of the problems the VA has. The only difference here is one is gov't run (VA) and one just gets gov't money (not the VA).

The gov't taking such a strong role is exactly why we have a constitution. Sure things are not as good as they could be but having the gov't step in to take control is not the right answer. Our founding fathers, even the most loose constructionalists, would be rolling in their graves if they knew what was going to happen.

Thomas Jefferson warned against such changes saying, "A gov't big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have"

We deferrend to the gov't during the depression and look what catastrophes came out of that: our social security system is a complete mess. Now imagine it on a much larger scale .

I will leave you with another TJ quote: "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

Those who cry the loudest for the government entitlements are the ones who will fund it the least. I would love for nurses on here advocating government funded healthcare to have a $1000/ month taken right out of their checks to pay for it. They would be screaming bloody murder but when it is someone else footing the bill it is a moral obligation.