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Insurance companies are neither Good nor Evil. That's absurd. They're simply in the unenviable position of having to be the decision makers in the distribution
by dschobel 17y ago
Insurance companies are neither Good nor Evil. That's absurd. They're simply in the unenviable position of having to be the decision makers in the distribution of a scarce resource (health care).
Saying the insurance companies are evil is no more informed than the people who railed at the Obama administration for suggesting that end of life care should be rationed.
The most fundamental issue is that health-care is so damned expensive in the US. That's why we get in the degenerate situation we're in now where it seems like insurance companies are the arbiters of who shall live and who shall die.
- olefoo 17y agoI have to disagree with you. I used the term evil in a considered fashion to describe the moral situation in which anyone who is running a health insurance company in the US at this time finds themselves. To anyone who has bothered to investigate the actual functioning of the system at this time the idea of the current form of health insurance as the rational rationing of scarce resources is laughable. The structure of health insurance protection in the US at this time extracts almost a third of every dollar spent on health care. And those administrative costs do not contribute towards better health care, chronic or acute. And that is why I am not afraid to make a moral judgment; an industry that steals the third part of the money entrusted to it's care at the expense of the sick and dying is evil. How can we remedy this evil?