Demonizing insurance companies

The strategy for the Democrats this August is to demonize the health insurance companies in order to provide an Enemy which will be defeated by the Good Guys via socialized medicine.

There’s a fairly obvious problem with this strategy, of course. While I take second place to no one in my disdain for health insurance companies generally, there is a fundamental difference between an insurance company and the government. I can fire the insurance company any time I want and, if I so choose, do without health insurance at all. Well, at least I can until Obamacare is passed.

On the other hand, not only can’t I fire the government whenever I want, if I should try to do so, they will come after me with guns. And they have far more guns than I do. This health care “crisis” is not about health care at all. It is about power–the power that some people want to seize and hold over other people. It’s a story as old as humanity itself.

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”[*1]