"ThinkProgess has documented how the private health insurance industry is waging a duplicitous, “two-faced” campaign to kill health reform. Because the industry understands that the public views it in a largely negative light, the industry presents itself as proactively working hand-in-hand with legislators to produce reform. However, behind the scenes, the industry is coordinating a massive effort to kill all reform — employing attacks from front groups, allied politicians, think tanks, lobbyists, and right-wing media. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, which is a lobbying group representing 39 independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans, is also engaged in this two-faced campaign. Like most of industry, the BCBS Association says it fully supports the concept of health reform, but continually demands drastic changes to the bills in Congress. Some have begun to question the BCBS Association’s claim of support given its new study attacking reform legislation in the Senate. The criticism of BCBS is bolstered by a new revelation that BCBS Association lobbyists are helping to orchestrate a right-wing movement to invalidate all of health reform." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Corporatism will go to any and every extreme to preserve the dictatorship of profit over people. Who knows? Some corporations might even go to the ultimate extreme: hiring Blackwater to overthrow the country... - Dennis Jernberg

Crap! We're "insured" with BCBS. - Rene, Pro Button Pusher

Only problem for the Blues, Its broken! Usually they'd buy and lie and finally win but this time not so much. Too many folks going broke, too many folks scared to death, too many folks "know somebody" who died needing health care... Diesn't matter the system is badly utterly broken despite the Blue's best we're all on Medicare inside 5 maybe less - WarLord

As long as the right(eous) keep fear mongering that the public option means required abortions for every baby after the first and mandatory euthenasia for grandpa and grandma, and as long as there are people stupid enough to believe that nonsense, they will keep pouring money into campaigns that spread those lies. And with more states backing away from same sex marriages, you can clearly see the shift to the extreme right. I am still hopeful, but I'm not overly confident. - Rene, Pro Button Pusher

Doesn't matter "for profit" is broken unfixable only people not seeing it are the vested interests It will be Medicare to the rescue... - WarLord