It's called PROGRESS

[jfkraus]

It's time "Health Insurance for Profit" went away. Did Henry Ford worry about all the stables, and saddle makers, and ranchers, and horse dealers, and blacksmiths, etc..., he was going to put out of work when he invented the automobile assembly line? Industry and economies evolve! New ones come in, old ones fade away. That's capitalism at it's finest.

[jgraz]

1. Imagine if stables and saddle makers were writing fat checks to Ford Motors

How many cars do you think they'd have produced?

[tavalon]

2. It's called Sisyphean, actually

[salvorhardin]

3. I don't think your analogy works

The assembly line was not Henry Ford's invention. It was only one part of the industrialization of Western Civilization that had been working its changes over society for at least a hundred years before Henry Ford. In fact, the assembly line itself had been around for that long. On the other hand, if the U.S. were to switch to a single payer health care system overnight there would be tens of thousands of people thrown out of work instantly. We're not talking about just insurance company CEOs either. The vast majority of people affected would be average people.

That being said, the compromise being worked out does not go far enough and is a huge boon for the insurance companies.

[Ihaterush]

4. Capitalism indeed