The insurance scam in this country sets a worldwide standard for fleecing the stupid. Or, more accurately, fleecing everyone by taking advantage of the stupid.

The insurance scam in this country sets a worldwide standard for fleecing the stupid. Or, more accurately, fleecing everyone by taking advantage of the stupid. The failure to divorce your health insurance from your job is what created the mess we have today. It arose from wage caps during WWII, and instead of fixing the defective legislation at the time... Congress just let it fester until it became the life-ruining disgrace that Americans live with daily. With the strident support of fools who believe that they're getting "free" insurance from their employers... and anything else insurance companies tell them, legislators, lobbyists, drug companies, big corporations all line up against affordable health insurance. Big corporations get workers chained to dead-end jobs by their insurance. Insurance companies and big pharma get windfall profits because the real costs to consumers are buried behind "free" insurance that is profoundly not free. And nobody in government or politics has the balls to call this out. Subsidizing this rip-off is, in some ways, even worse. Just like subsidizing the obscene rip-off that college has become.