Insurers secretly love health care bill

If we look back in history to the early 1900s we can see a similar scenario.

Back then people were concerned about the amount of control that a few big banks had over the economy and unfortunately still do. As a result there was a demand for banking reform. Naturally the bankers saw this as a threat to their way of doing business. Thus the Federal Reserve Banking system was created as the way to control the economy and inflation.

Sadly what the people back then didn't realize was that this new system was secretly designed and created by the very bankers that it was supposed to control. But by using reverse psychology the bankers then claimed that they didn't like this new system thus the average person then assumed that if they didn't like it then it must be a good deal.

So now it really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that no matter how hard the Federal Reserve System claims to be trying to control the ups and downs of the economy they unfortunately are never quite able to do it. Oh, of course they claim to be working to the very best of their ability and all we need to do is just give them a little more time and hopefully they will get it right. Obviously there is only so much that we can realistically expect them to accomplish in a mere 100 years.

But now I see this scenario repeating itself in the health care bill.

The same as with our banking system, the real goal here appears to have nothing to do with providing meaningful health care reform. It is a carefully crafted means of taking power away from the individual and transferring it into the hands of an exclusive group of power hungry individuals.

Richard Gideon

Schaumburg