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The abuses of health insurers must be reined in. These companies are no more able to police themselves or act disinterestedly than an addict is to abandon his drug. They are addicted to cash and in their insatiable need for more and more, they trample human beings and behave criminally. Just as the police have to step in and enforce laws to keep the ruthless from robbing and abusing people, the government now has to dismantle the health insurance companies and enforce fairness in apportioning health care --- as well as capping the outrageous charges for care and medication. Who else is going to do it but we the people, speaking through our elected representatives (those who are not bribed and corrupted)?

People are irrationally panicked about universal healthcare. They have been brainwashed since the Reagan years by some very crafty flacks. They see a cleverly engineered ad and believe it with all their hearts, playing right into the hands of the health insurance companies. Some of these folks sound like they went to sleep and got body snatched and woke up spouting the insurance companies' exact fear-mongering invective. Whlie other countries' citizens enjoy the benefits of universal healthcare, we die broke and untreated --- or worse, watch our loved ones going without lifesaving care.