Jump in the lake.

Editor,

The theory that "employers and employees would shop for health plans . . . forcing insurers to rein in costs" is nonsense.

Look at internet access "plans" or the calling "plans" provided by the corporations that provide cell phone or long distance services. Consumers get to select from equally expensive and equally inferior garbage all of which amounts fundamentally to the same price per kilobit or the same price per minute -- prices that are set by the corporations, in league with each other, and which consumers get to take or leave.

Health care "plans" will amount to varying degrees of "risk" that consumers will be able to assume: this plan doesn't cover dialysis, that plan doesn't cover gall bladder surgery -- let's see, I'll bet my kidneys will hold up, but my gall bladder probably won't.

This entire approach to health insurance for the American public is a stupid joke. One and only one thing will be insured by it, and that is corporate profits. The American people are welcome to go jump in a lake -- provided they leave their wallet with the corporations on their way out the door.

re: "Congress Is Split on Effort to Tax Costly Health Plans" (10/13/2009)