Health Insurance

I guess John McCain is giving Dick Cheney a breather and subbing for him (much like when Watty came in for me after I drained that 3 in MJ's face!) in the "I'm gonna say some stupid shit for a while" department; he had barely gotten done re-iterating today that we should probably bomb-bomb-bomb-Iran when he went to bat for the insurance industry. Which is not surprising in and of itself - McCain has spent his career doing a lot of stupid things, but he is indeed smart enough to know that one way to rally Americans is to point out that megatrionallionaire corporations need to be protected at all costs, even if those costs include your own health. And he knows that while things like "let the market sort itself out" and "real competition creates the free markets that drive down costs for YOU!" work great as hollow jingo-isms at campaign rallies, ACTUALLY letting the market work itself out and REAL competition are things he wants no part of.

You can "meh, I dunno, meh" all day long about costs of any universal healthcare plan. But when you fucking see it in black and white that over 1,300 health insurance companies are "competing" against each other and yet oh gee, they just can't seem to bring costs down, aw shucks! then you need to come to grips that either these genuinely are the most badly run, godawfully atrocious companies on the planet, or you are a fucking fool.