After reading several articles on today’s supposed agreement (like NY Times) between Obama and a group of health care industries, including the health care insurance industry, it is apparent that Obama is caving.  The America people are going to get screwed so badly in this deal.  Here’s the reasons why:

As long as there is still a health insurance industry that is for profit, health care reform will not happen.  It might change but not for the better. It doesn’t matter what they propose, like today’s plan to reduce health care spending by 1.5% per year.  Focusing on the savings is saying nothing about the quality.  They could agree to reduce it 5% per year and all it means, if they keep their word, is that less money will be spent on health care.  Shit, they could just declare to save 100% if they wanted.  Keep denying coverage and making it impossible for people to get quality health care — simple and done.  Any potential savings is possible.  In the end, people will still not get quality health care and people will die.  Meanwhile, lots of profit is taken out of the system to reward rich people.

As long as companies remove money from the health care system in the name of “profit”, the system is going to suck.  The only hope is streamline the entire system:  To control all costs through regulations — salaries, services, drugs.  Not allow any profits.  Monitor every aspect of the system for fraud.  Emphasize quality care for all Americans. Anything else and forget about calling it reform.  Just call it another scam on the American people.

America is doomed.