The Corporate and Media "Reactive" Strategy

I was watching a "news report" from CNN this morning and they had on some talking head from the "Libertarian leaning" CATO Institute. Apparently, CATO is concerned that under the new Health Care reforms that everyone's premiums will go up. This is because reform will "force" Private Insurance companies to accept high-risk people and those with pre-existing conditions.

To which I say, "Number one, the moral thing to do is to make sure that not one more person dies or goes bankrupt, denied coverage. Number two, with everyone covered, there will be fewer high-risk and pre-existing-conditions people because they will get preventive healthcare."

But no, they say, "You can't cover everyone with diabetes." They SHOULD be saying, "We are going to drastically reduce the number of people *developing* diabetes under this new bill."

But, again, no: To the Corporatists and simple-minded-Republicans, they'd rather everyone suffer under a *reactive* system, rather than everyone prosper under a *proactive* system."

And the Media are complicit in all this.