Cutting Through the AHIP Crap

Although America's Health Insurance Plans do seem to have well and thoroughly fucked themselves with the deceptive, over-the-top extortion attempt of a "report," to understand the reality-defying gag-a-maggot core of the story we must turn to the Rude Pundit.

Because the natural response to any of the insurance companies' threats is "Wow, there's an industry that needs the government to step in." And thus the circle is complete.

The Rude Pundit has tried to come up with a rational reason why the public option is still even being debated and is not the centerpiece of the bill. He can't do it. By AHIP's own admission, they have to be stopped or they'll kill again. The report is a taunt, a thug-level threat, terrorism, if you will. With no government alternative to corporate health insurance, it's like asking captured bank robbers if they'd mind not robbing banks anymore. When they say, "Yes, we mind," you ask if they'd stop shooting hostages. And when they say, "We'll think about it," you thank them for accepting their punishment so gracefully and release them.

Read the whole thing.

NOW can we have single-payer?