There are many spewings from the Right WingNuts that are irritating. Among the most such is the claim that a Single Payer health system will "put the government between you and your doctor" or "some government accountant will decide what care you get". Neither is true, of course. What's more evil is that there is already someone between you and your doctor, and HMO/insurance bean counters already decide what care you will get.
I know. I wrote (not from the start or in its entirety) such software. There are a number of these packages; the one I worked on is called Optimed. The company's been sold a few times since I was there, and is now a part of MEDecision. These applications (others: Milliman, InterQual) seek to disallow services. Nothing more. They claim to improve health, but that's just not true.
So, the next Right WingNut who spews that nonsense; break his knee and tell him he won't qualify because he brought it on himself.
You can help by contacting your congress person and Obama. This is such a big lie that letting it continue is criminal.
Update:
A couple of days after I penned this, Krugman wrote on the subject, although there isn't a discussion of how insurance companies steal your coverage.
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I'm beginning to wonder whether we should any more. They are clearly ingrates.
They're cutting their own throats, literally. The Leaders are dangling abortion in front of them, again, to get the stupid sheep to protect the Leaders from having to contribute an extra dime or two. The Refascist sheep are an advantage, admittedly. They respond like Pavlov's dog to most any lower brain stem tweak; and they have bunches of them.
Aside: I sent a copy of this to both my Sen. Dodd and Obama. I did get a (form letter) reply from Dodd. No word from Obama.
Trust me, this is the way it is. It's how money is made. Worried about losing customers because you deny too many claims? Nada -- ain't gonna happen. Insurance companies know this. And the rules are the same in all insurance companies; where else ya gonna go?
It ain't like buying toothbrushes; when you pay premiums for a long time, you're like Pavlov's dog. You're conditioned. You feel locked in; the longer people pay premiums, the more reluctant they are to change insurers.
And that's why it works: deny, deny, deny.