Private insurance profit - at odds with providing Health Care

The center of the issue on "health-care reform" is profit .vs. care. Private industry has only one natural motive - profit. Normally this is good because that motive typically aligns with providing the right product or service I want to buy.

In health care, this concept fails. Profit in private health-insurance is completely at odds with providing care. Private insurance will do all it can to eliminate providing care because health care cuts into its profit.

o) Private insurance establishes massive and wasteful bureaucracies to make it difficult to get approval, and to evade paying for service they should.

o) Private insurance restricts our choice of doctors to their 'approved provider' lists.

o) Private insurance rations our health care by telling our doctors what treatment to give.

o) Private insurance costs us more and more every year, at a rate that far outstrips inflation, and puts increasing downward pressure on our business and family economies.

Profit-motive in the health-care insurance industry causes all the above inefficiencies, because the profit is naturally in opposition to cash outlay for health care. A public cost-coverage system will have far fewer of any of the above because the 'natural' motive is to enable health-care, not to increase profit.

Private health insurance can never be trusted to look after our health-care interests. All arguements in opposition to public health care cost-overage fail to overcome this single, overarching reality.

Americans can not afford to keep it.