Barack Obama’s out to get the insurance companies. Yep, that has to be it.
Why else, after all, would the democrats, or at least a small handful of them, have the nerve to inform insurance companies that there was going to be an investigation into money spent on executive compensation among other things? To read the article, you’d think it couldn’t be for any other reason than because they’re not backing Obama’s healthcare proposal. One insurance executive has even gone on the record comparing it to a reprisal audit by the IRS.
There’s just no way it could possibly be that someone might actually be looking to prove the insurance structure in the United States has actually gone out of controll, is there? I mean, surely not–the idea’s being floated by the democrats, after all. Here’s the catch, though. They’re going after insurance companies who’ve received 2 billion dollars or more in premiums, who’s employees received 1 million dollars or more per year between 2003 and 2008. Yep, definitely yet another democrat attempt to stick it to the insurance companies. Really. Because you shouldn’t expect that if you’re making that much money and doing anything that deals with people’s health, folks are going to want answers.
Fox News is shaking their heads and wondering, though, why it is they’re not telling the republicans about it. Well, I wouldn’t either. Since the election of Barack Obama, they’ve taken the insanity that was George W. Bush and turned it into something that even Canada’s conservative party, who’s seen as being on their equivalent of the political right, won’t even touch with a 10-foot poll. Losing to Obama? That’s okay, just claim he’s not eligible to be president. Don’t like his healthcare plan? That’s okay, just scream disaster and point north (it works quite well, by the way). That’ll get things done.
The amusing part in all this is, none of this has anything to do with a supposed conspiracy theory or anything like that. It’s no secret, even to bloggers that are obviously on the right of the political line, that healthcare costs in the US are less than tolerable–the article even goes so far as to point out that of the 47 million supposedly without insurance, 18 million of them make $50000 a year or more and have still not elected to purchase insurance. That article sort of halfway hints at the actual problem with the healthcare system as it stands now–healthcare may be afordable, but at what other costs? Do you not send your kids to college so you can aford to pay for the insurance?
And that’s the kicker. That’s the point behind the notice served to 52 insurance companies nation-wide–the same companies the republicans would be perfectly fine with allowing to continue to raise prices for service who’s quality doesn’t actually go up along with them. Because, you know, if it ain’t broke, why fix it? But if the system wasn’t broken, it wouldn’t be at least a small part of the election platform on the US side of the border every 4 years–at least on one side of the battlefield, anyway–and, most noteably, Obama wouldn’t have won on it in this past election. And now, the democrats want to find out exactly how broken is broken. And, let’s be honest here. If you have employees making over a million dollars a year from money that’s being paid out by people expecting you to provide them with medical coverage rather than spend your time looking for reasons not to do same, it’s broken. But, since it was a democrat behind the push, it can be little more than a conspiracy to obliterate the US economy. Because, you know, that fits much more easily into fox news’s tiny little ideological box. And, at the end of the day, that’s clearly all that matters.
