So I’ve been readingskimming through the health care plan proposed by Senator Max Baucus of Montana.  It’s been getting some good press lately, and is seen as something that has a good possibility of becoming the health care reform everyone is so desperately looking for.  It addresses lots of the common complaints about health reform bills and includes an individual mandate but lets people buy at “pool” rather than individual rates.  

It doesn’t answer my main problem with every single health care reform I’ve seen.  What exactly is the benefit the insurance companies are providing to consumers?  I mean honestly, what the hell is their justification for existing as private profit seeking companies? Read the rest of this entry »

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